[PATCH] fbdev: Check fb_add_videomode to prevent null-ptr-deref

Chenyuan Yang chenyuan0y at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 03:25:34 UTC 2025


fb_add_videomode() can fail with -ENOMEM when its internal kmalloc()
cannot allocate a struct fb_modelist.
If that happens, the modelist stays empty but the driver continues to
register.
Add a check for its return value to prevent poteintial null-ptr-deref,
which is similar to the commit 17186f1f90d3
("fbdev: Fix do_register_framebuffer to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var").

Fixes: 1b6c79361ba5 ("video: imxfb: Add DT support")
Signed-off-by: Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
index f30da32cdaed..a077bf346bdf 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
@@ -996,8 +996,13 @@ static int imxfb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	info->fix.smem_start = fbi->map_dma;
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->modelist);
-	for (i = 0; i < fbi->num_modes; i++)
-		fb_add_videomode(&fbi->mode[i].mode, &info->modelist);
+	for (i = 0; i < fbi->num_modes; i++) {
+		ret = fb_add_videomode(&fbi->mode[i].mode, &info->modelist);
+		if (ret) {
+			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to add videomode\n");
+			goto failed_cmap;
+		}
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * This makes sure that our colour bitfield
-- 
2.34.1



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