[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/gvt/scheduler: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo at embeddedor.com
Mon Mar 19 20:50:12 UTC 2018


Hi Chris,

On 03/19/2018 03:38 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Gustavo A. R. Silva (2018-03-19 19:30:53)
>> _workload_ is being dereferenced before it is null checked, hence
>> there is a potential null pointer dereference.
>>
>> Fix this by moving the pointer dereference after _workload_ has
>> been null checked.
> 
> The checks are misleading and not required.

All of them?

if (!workload || !reg_state || workload->ring_id != RCS)
	return;

or just the null check on workload ?

Thanks for the feedback.
--
Gustavo



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