[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/4] drm/i915: Check new context against kernel_context after reporting an error

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Jul 5 14:26:31 UTC 2017


Avoid any pointer dereference in inspecting a potential PTR_ERR by
checking for the error pointer before checking for an invalid context.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
index 2eb5d8203999..98d2ce98f467 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
@@ -571,14 +571,13 @@ int i915_gem_context_open(struct drm_i915_private *i915,
 	mutex_lock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex);
 	ctx = i915_gem_create_context(i915, file_priv);
 	mutex_unlock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex);
-
-	GEM_BUG_ON(i915_gem_context_is_kernel(ctx));
-
 	if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
 		idr_destroy(&file_priv->context_idr);
 		return PTR_ERR(ctx);
 	}
 
+	GEM_BUG_ON(i915_gem_context_is_kernel(ctx));
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.13.2



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