Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] drm: A couple of fixes for drm_copy_field() helper function

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

On 7/5/22 12:02, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Peter Robinson reported me a kernel bug in one of his aarch64 test boards
> and even though I was not able to reproduce it, I think that figured out
> what the problem was. It seems the cause is that a DRM driver doesn't set
> some of the struct drm fields copied to userspace via DRM_IOCTL_VERSION.
> 
> Even though this is a driver bug, we can make drm_copy_field() more robust
> and warn about it instead of leading to an attempt to copy a NULL pointer.
> 
> While looking at this, I also found that a variable in drm_copy_field() is
> not using the correct type. So I included that change in the patch-set too.
> 

Pushed these to drm-misc (drm-misc-next). Thanks!

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat