Re: [PATCH] drm/mediatek: Check CRTC state before freeing

["CK Hu (胡俊光)" <ck.hu@mediatek.com>]

On Tue, 2026-07-07 at 23:05 +0800, Ruoyu Wang wrote:
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> 
> mtk_crtc_reset() destroys the current CRTC state only when crtc->state
> is non-NULL, but it always converts crtc->state to struct mtk_crtc_state
> and passes the result to kfree().
> 
> When reset is called without an existing state, container_of(NULL, ...)
> does not produce NULL. Keep the mtk state free in the same crtc->state
> guard as the helper state destruction.
> 
> This issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by
> manual source review.

Reviewed-by: CK Hu <ck.hu@mediatek.com>

> 
> Fixes: 2d267b81898e ("drm/mtk: Use __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset")
> Signed-off-by: Ruoyu Wang <ruoyuw560@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_crtc.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_crtc.c
> index 8e552cdc3b53b..97e3ff412e6ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_crtc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_crtc.c
> @@ -154,10 +154,10 @@ static void mtk_crtc_reset(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
>  {
>         struct mtk_crtc_state *state;
> 
> -       if (crtc->state)
> +       if (crtc->state) {
>                 __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state(crtc->state);
> -
> -       kfree(to_mtk_crtc_state(crtc->state));
> +               kfree(to_mtk_crtc_state(crtc->state));
> +       }
>         crtc->state = NULL;
> 
>         state = kzalloc_obj(*state);
> --
> 2.51.0
> 
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