Re: [PATCH] drm: vkms: check status of alloc_ordered_workqueue

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 09:32:07PM -0500, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Mar 8, 2019, at 10:36 PM, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > alloc_ordered_workqueue may fail and return NULL.
> > The fix returns ENOMEM when it fails to avoid potential NULL
> > pointer dereference.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> > index 8a9aeb0a9ea8..bb66dbcd5e3f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
> > @@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ int vkms_crtc_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_crtc *crtc,
> > 	spin_lock_init(&vkms_out->state_lock);
> > 
> > 	vkms_out->crc_workq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("vkms_crc_workq", 0);
> > +	if (!vkms_out->crc_workq)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Is this a reasonable patch?

lgtm, applied and thanks for your patch.
-Daniel

> 
> > 
> > 	return ret;
> > }
> > -- 
> > 2.17.1
> > 
> 

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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