[PATCH 6.1 257/280] drm/amd/display: Check dce_hwseq before dereferencing it

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-04T15:17:34Z

From: Alex Hung <alex.hung@amd.com>

[ Upstream commit b669507b637eb6b1aaecf347f193efccc65d756e ]

[WHAT]

hws was checked for null earlier in dce110_blank_stream, indicating hws
can be null, and should be checked whenever it is used.

Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Aurabindo Pillai <aurabindo.pillai@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurabindo Pillai <aurabindo.pillai@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
(cherry picked from commit 79db43611ff61280b6de58ce1305e0b2ecf675ad)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[ The context change is due to the commit 8e7b3f5435b3
("drm/amd/display: Add control flag to dc_stream_state to skip eDP BL off/link off")
and the commit a8728dbb4ba2 ("drm/amd/display: Refactor edp power
control") and the proper adoption is done. ]
Signed-off-by: Rahul Sharma <black.hawk@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce110/dce110_hw_sequencer.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce110/dce110_hw_sequencer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce110/dce110_hw_sequencer.c
@@ -1233,7 +1233,8 @@ void dce110_blank_stream(struct pipe_ctx
struct dce_hwseq *hws = link->dc->hwseq;

if (link->local_sink && link->local_sink->sink_signal == SIGNAL_TYPE_EDP) {
- hws->funcs.edp_backlight_control(link, false);
+ if (hws)
+ hws->funcs.edp_backlight_control(link, false);
link->dc->hwss.set_abm_immediate_disable(pipe_ctx);
}