[PATCH] drm/bridge: megachips: Fix a null pointer dereference bug

[Zheyu Ma]

Hi Robert,


On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 11:03 PM Robert Foss <robert.foss at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 at 10:13, Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When removing the module we will get the following warning:
> >
> > [   31.911505] i2c-core: driver [stdp2690-ge-b850v3-fw] unregistered
> > [   31.912484] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
> > [   31.913338] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
> > [   31.915280] RIP: 0010:drm_bridge_remove+0x97/0x130
> > [   31.921825] Call Trace:
> > [   31.922533]  stdp4028_ge_b850v3_fw_remove+0x34/0x60 [megachips_stdpxxxx_ge_b850v3_fw]
> > [   31.923139]  i2c_device_remove+0x181/0x1f0
> >
> > The two bridges (stdp2690, stdp4028) do not probe at the same time, so
> > the driver does not call ge_b850v3_resgiter() when probing, causing the
> > driver to try to remove the object that has not been initialized.
> >
> > Fix this by checking whether both the bridges are probed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.c
> > index cce98bf2a4e7..c68a4cdf4625 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.c
> > @@ -296,7 +296,9 @@ static void ge_b850v3_lvds_remove(void)
> >          * This check is to avoid both the drivers
> >          * removing the bridge in their remove() function
> >          */
> > -       if (!ge_b850v3_lvds_ptr)
> > +       if (!ge_b850v3_lvds_ptr ||
> > +               !ge_b850v3_lvds_ptr->stdp2690_i2c ||
> > +               !ge_b850v3_lvds_ptr->stdp4028_i2c)
>
> This chunk fails checkpatch --strict.
>
> Alignment should match open parenthesis
> #39: FILE: drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.c:300:

Thanks for your suggestion, I've sent the version 2 patch.

Regards,

Zheyu Ma