Re: [PATCH] gpu: radeon: fix a potential NULL-pointer dereference

[Michel DÃnzer]

Hi Kangjie,


thanks for your patch.


On 2019-03-23 3:29 a.m., Kangjie Lu wrote:
> In case alloc_workqueue fails, the fix frees memory and
> returns to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c
> index aa898c699101..a31305755a77 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c
> @@ -678,6 +678,11 @@ static void radeon_crtc_init(struct drm_device *dev, int index)
>  	drm_mode_crtc_set_gamma_size(&radeon_crtc->base, 256);
>  	radeon_crtc->crtc_id = index;
>  	radeon_crtc->flip_queue = alloc_workqueue("radeon-crtc", WQ_HIGHPRI, 0);
> +	if (!radeon_crtc->flip_queue) {
> +		DRM_ERROR("failed to allocate the flip queue\n");
> +		kfree(radeon_crtc);

This would leak some memory referenced by struct drm_crtc. To solve
this, I suggest calling radeon_crtc_destroy here and making that cope
with radeon_crtc->flip_queue being NULL.


Also, I'm not sure all driver code can handle some CRTCs not
initializing. Given that, and as alloc_workqueue presumably only fails
if the system is essentially out of memory anyway, it's probably better
for radeon_crtc_init to return -ENOMEM in this case and for
radeon_modeset_init to propagate that, which will prevent the driver as
a whole from initializing.


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