Re: [PATCH] drm/gud: fix NULL crtc dereference on display disable

From: Thomas Zimmermann

Date: Mon Jan 19 2026 - 03:17:34 EST


Hi,

thanks for the patch.


Am 18.01.26 um 13:50 schrieb Shenghao Yang:
Commit dc2d5ddb193e ("drm/gud: fix NULL fb and crtc dereferences
on USB disconnect") [1] only fixed the initial NULL crtc dereference
in gud_plane_atomic_update().

However, planes can also be disabled in non-hotplug paths (e.g.
display disables via the DE). The drm_dev_enter() call would not

'DE' ?

cause an early return in those and we'll subsequently oops on
dereferencing crtc:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000005c8
CPU: 6 UID: 1000 PID: 3473 Comm: kwin_wayland Not tainted 6.18.2-200.vanilla.gud.fc42.x86_64 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
RIP: 0010:gud_plane_atomic_update+0x148/0x470 [gud]
<TASK>
drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes+0x28e/0x310
drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail+0x2a/0x70
commit_tail+0xf1/0x150
drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x13c/0x180
drm_atomic_commit+0xb1/0xe0
info ? __pfx___drm_printfn_info+0x10/0x10
drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x70f/0x7c0
? __pfx_drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x10/0x10
drm_ioctl_kernel+0xae/0x100
drm_ioctl+0x2a8/0x550
? __pfx_drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x10/0x10
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x7e/0x7f0
? __ct_user_enter+0x56/0xd0
? do_syscall_64+0x158/0x7f0
? __ct_user_enter+0x56/0xd0
? do_syscall_64+0x158/0x7f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Add an early exit and disable the display controller if crtc is NULL.

It seems to me that all these calls to GUD_REQ_SET_CONTROLLER_ENABLE(^1) and GUD_REQ_SET_DISPLAY_ENABLEshould rather go to the CRTC's atomic_enable/atomic_disable functions. Those currently seem missing from [1]. The atomic_update helper would then be reduced to damage handling. Best regards Thomas [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18.6/source/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c#L341
^1: SET_CONTROLLER_ENABLE sounds like it could even be part of device probing and runtime PM management, but that is a more invasive change.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251231055039.44266-1-me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 6.18.x
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202601142159.0v8ilfVs-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: 73cfd166e045 ("drm/gud: Replace simple display pipe with DRM atomic helpers")
Signed-off-by: Shenghao Yang <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
index 4b77be94348d..a69dee71490f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
@@ -610,6 +610,9 @@ void gud_plane_atomic_update(struct drm_plane *plane,
if (!drm_dev_enter(drm, &idx))
return;
+ if (!crtc)
+ goto ctrl_disable;
+
if (!old_state->fb)
gud_usb_set_u8(gdrm, GUD_REQ_SET_CONTROLLER_ENABLE, 1);
@@ -633,7 +636,7 @@ void gud_plane_atomic_update(struct drm_plane *plane,
drm_gem_fb_end_cpu_access(fb, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
ctrl_disable:
- if (!crtc->state->enable)
+ if (!crtc || !crtc->state->enable)
gud_usb_set_u8(gdrm, GUD_REQ_SET_CONTROLLER_ENABLE, 0);
drm_dev_exit(idx);

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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
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