Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] drm/sun4i: tcon: prevent tcon->panel dereference if null

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Thu Oct 04 2018 - 15:56:10 EST


On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 04:24:58PM +0200, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> If using tcon with VGA,

We don't have support for VGA at the moment. Or are you talking about
using a VGA bridge?

> tcon->panel will be null(0), this will cause segmentation fault when
> trying to dereference tcon->panel->connector.

It's not a segmentation fault, but a null pointer dereference. And
that case will also happen with bridges.

Maxime

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