[PATCH 03/15] drm/xe/vm: Clear the scratch_pt pointer on error

Thomas Hellström thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com
Wed Aug 13 10:51:09 UTC 2025


Avoid triggering a dereference of an error pointer on cleanup in
xe_vm_free_scratch() by clearing any scratch_pt error pointer.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 06951c2ee72d ("drm/xe: Use NULL PTEs as scratch PTEs")
Cc: Brian Welty <brian.welty at intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v6.8+
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c
index d40d2d43c041..12e661960244 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c
@@ -1635,8 +1635,12 @@ static int xe_vm_create_scratch(struct xe_device *xe, struct xe_tile *tile,
 
 	for (i = MAX_HUGEPTE_LEVEL; i < vm->pt_root[id]->level; i++) {
 		vm->scratch_pt[id][i] = xe_pt_create(vm, tile, i);
-		if (IS_ERR(vm->scratch_pt[id][i]))
-			return PTR_ERR(vm->scratch_pt[id][i]);
+		if (IS_ERR(vm->scratch_pt[id][i])) {
+			int err = PTR_ERR(vm->scratch_pt[id][i]);
+
+			vm->scratch_pt[id][i] = NULL;
+			return err;
+		}
 
 		xe_pt_populate_empty(tile, vm, vm->scratch_pt[id][i]);
 	}
-- 
2.50.1



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