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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: "Su\, Xuemin" <xuemin.su@intel.com>,
	airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xuemin.su@intel.com, yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, bo.he@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] drm_crtc: check if fb_create return NULL
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:31:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bocfugln.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358987804.18561.22.camel@suxuemin.sh.intel.com>

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, "Su, Xuemin" <xuemin.su@intel.com> wrote:
> From: xueminsu <xuemin.su@intel.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:39:39 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] drm_crtc: check if fb_create return NULL
>
> Some buggy driver may still return NULL in fb_create,
> which leads to kernel panic.
>
> Signed-off-by: xueminsu <xuemin.su@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
> index f2d667b..ae613ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
> @@ -2172,6 +2172,8 @@ int drm_mode_addfb(struct drm_device *dev,
>  		ret = PTR_ERR(fb);
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> +	/* some buggy driver may return NULL here, which may cause panic */
> +	BUG_ON(!fb);

I fail to see the benefit of this compared to just letting it oops...

>  	or->fb_id = fb->base.id;

...right here.


BR,
Jani.

>  	list_add(&fb->filp_head, &file_priv->fbs);
> -- 
> 1.7.6
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-24  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-24  0:36 [PATCH V3] drm_crtc: check if fb_create return NULL Su, Xuemin
2013-01-24  8:31 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2013-01-24  8:46   ` Su, Xuemin
2013-01-24  9:04     ` Jani Nikula
2013-01-31  0:55       ` Su, Xuemin
2013-01-31  8:22         ` Daniel Vetter

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