Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] drm/i915: check for return value

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Wed Dec 09 2015 - 06:39:27 EST


On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 04:29:31PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 07:28:00PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > We were not checking the return value of drm_encoder_init() which can
> > fail. And if it fails then we will be working with an uninitialized
> > encoder.
> >
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
> -Daniel

Hi Daniel,
It is still not there in linux-next. Still applies cleanly on
next-20151209.

regards
sudip

>
> > ---
> >
> > Sent on 27/07/2015
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > index 18bcfbe..2a8b47e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
> > @@ -6174,8 +6174,9 @@ intel_dp_init(struct drm_device *dev, int output_reg, enum port port)
> > intel_encoder = &intel_dig_port->base;
> > encoder = &intel_encoder->base;
> >
> > - drm_encoder_init(dev, &intel_encoder->base, &intel_dp_enc_funcs,
> > - DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TMDS);
> > + if (drm_encoder_init(dev, &intel_encoder->base, &intel_dp_enc_funcs,
> > + DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TMDS))
> > + goto err_encoder_init;
> >
> > intel_encoder->compute_config = intel_dp_compute_config;
> > intel_encoder->disable = intel_disable_dp;
> > @@ -6224,6 +6225,7 @@ intel_dp_init(struct drm_device *dev, int output_reg, enum port port)
> >
> > err_init_connector:
> > drm_encoder_cleanup(encoder);
> > +err_encoder_init:
> > kfree(intel_connector);
> > err_connector_alloc:
> > kfree(intel_dig_port);
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >
>
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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