Re: [PATCH RESEND] drm/stm: ltdc: fix late dereference check

[Philippe CORNU]

On 5/15/23 14:38, Raphael Gallais-Pou wrote:
> In ltdc_crtc_set_crc_source(), struct drm_crtc was dereferenced in a
> container_of() before the pointer check. This could cause a kernel panic.
>
> Fix this smatch warning:
> drivers/gpu/drm/stm/ltdc.c:1124 ltdc_crtc_set_crc_source() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'crtc' (see line 1119)
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202212241802.zeLFZCXB-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Raphael Gallais-Pou <raphael.gallais-pou@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/stm/ltdc.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/stm/ltdc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/stm/ltdc.c
> index 03c6becda795..b8be4c1db423 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/stm/ltdc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/stm/ltdc.c
> @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ static void ltdc_crtc_disable_vblank(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
>   
>   static int ltdc_crtc_set_crc_source(struct drm_crtc *crtc, const char *source)
>   {
> -	struct ltdc_device *ldev = crtc_to_ltdc(crtc);
> +	struct ltdc_device *ldev;
>   	int ret;
>   
>   	DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("\n");
> @@ -1153,6 +1153,8 @@ static int ltdc_crtc_set_crc_source(struct drm_crtc *crtc, const char *source)
>   	if (!crtc)
>   		return -ENODEV;
>   
> +	ldev = crtc_to_ltdc(crtc);
> +
>   	if (source && strcmp(source, "auto") == 0) {
>   		ldev->crc_active = true;
>   		ret = regmap_set_bits(ldev->regmap, LTDC_GCR, GCR_CRCEN);

Hi Raphael,
and many thanks for your patch.
Acked-by: Philippe Cornu <philippe.cornu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Philippe :-)