[PATCH v2] drm/amd/display: fix NULL dereference

Hamza Mahfooz hamza.mahfooz at amd.com
Tue Nov 14 21:01:14 UTC 2023


On 11/14/23 10:27, José Pekkarinen wrote:
> The following patch will fix a minor issue where a debug message is
> referencing an struct that has just being checked whether is null or
> not. This has been noticed by using coccinelle, in the following output:
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c:540:25-29: ERROR: aconnector is NULL but dereferenced.
> 
> Fixes: 5d72e247e58c9 ("drm/amd/display: switch DC over to the new DRM logging macros")

You only need the first 12 characters of the hash here. I have fixed it
for you and applied the patch in this case. But, in the future please
test your patches against `./scripts/checkpatch.pl` before submitting
them.

> Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen at foxhound.fi>
> ---
> [v1 -> v2]: Remove the debugging message, requested by Hamza
> 
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c | 5 +----
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c
> index ed784cf27d39..c7a29bb737e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c
> @@ -536,11 +536,8 @@ bool dm_helpers_dp_read_dpcd(
>   
>   	struct amdgpu_dm_connector *aconnector = link->priv;
>   
> -	if (!aconnector) {
> -		drm_dbg_dp(aconnector->base.dev,
> -			   "Failed to find connector for link!\n");
> +	if (!aconnector)
>   		return false;
> -	}
>   
>   	return drm_dp_dpcd_read(&aconnector->dm_dp_aux.aux, address, data,
>   				size) == size;
-- 
Hamza



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