[PATCH v2 RESEND] drm/msm/dpu: reorder pointer operations after sanity checks to avoid NULL deref

[Abhinav Kumar]

On 4/8/2025 10:22 AM, Qasim Ijaz wrote:
> _dpu_encoder_trigger_start dereferences "struct dpu_encoder_phys *phys"
> before the sanity checks which can lead to a NULL pointer dereference if
> phys is NULL.
>   
> Fix this by reordering the dereference after the sanity checks.
>   
> Fixes: 8144d17a81d9 ("drm/msm/dpu: Skip trigger flush and start for CWB")
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00 at gmail.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Moved Signed-off tag below Fixes tag
> - Moved dpu_enc declaration to the top and initialisation below sanity checks
> 
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_encoder.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

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