[PATCH 1/3] drm/msm: Avoid NULL dereference in msm_disp_state_print_regs()

Abhinav Kumar quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com
Mon Oct 14 18:52:53 UTC 2024



On 10/14/2024 9:36 AM, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> If the allocation in msm_disp_state_dump_regs() failed then
> `block->state` can be NULL. The msm_disp_state_print_regs() function
> _does_ have code to try to handle it with:
> 
>    if (*reg)
>      dump_addr = *reg;
> 
> ...but since "dump_addr" is initialized to NULL the above is actually
> a noop. The code then goes on to dereference `dump_addr`.
> 
> Make the function print "Registers not stored" when it sees a NULL to
> solve this. Since we're touching the code, fix
> msm_disp_state_print_regs() not to pointlessly take a double-pointer
> and properly mark the pointer as `const`.
> 
> Fixes: 98659487b845 ("drm/msm: add support to take dpu snapshot")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
> 
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/msm_disp_snapshot_util.c | 15 ++++++++-------
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 

LGTM, thanks for the fix

Reviewed-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com>


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