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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
Cc: Broadcom internal kernel review list
	<bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
	Martin Krastev <martin.krastev@broadcom.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/vmwgfx: Fix NULL vs error pointer bug in vmw_prime_import_sg_table()
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:32:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <akPFZ-e9usvsYgf_@stanley.mountain> (raw)

The vmw_prime_import_sg_table() function is expected to return error
pointers on error and not NULL.  Otherwise it leads to a NULL dereference
in the caller drm_gem_prime_import_dev().

Propagate the error code from vmw_bo_create().

Fixes: b32233acceff ("drm/vmwgfx: Fix prime import/export")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
---
v2: Propagate the error code from vmw_bo_create() instead of hardcoding
    -ENOMEM.

 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gem.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gem.c
index 39f8c46550c2..93a92ae625f8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gem.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ struct drm_gem_object *vmw_prime_import_sg_table(struct drm_device *dev,
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct vmw_private *dev_priv = vmw_priv(dev);
-	struct drm_gem_object *gem = NULL;
+	struct drm_gem_object *gem;
 	struct vmw_bo *vbo;
 	struct vmw_bo_params params = {
 		.domain = (dev_priv->has_mob) ? VMW_BO_DOMAIN_SYS : VMW_BO_DOMAIN_VRAM,
@@ -201,8 +201,10 @@ struct drm_gem_object *vmw_prime_import_sg_table(struct drm_device *dev,
 	dma_resv_lock(params.resv, NULL);
 
 	ret = vmw_bo_create(dev_priv, &params, &vbo);
-	if (ret != 0)
+	if (ret != 0) {
+		gem = ERR_PTR(ret);
 		goto out_no_bo;
+	}
 
 	vbo->tbo.base.funcs = &vmw_gem_object_funcs;
 
-- 
2.53.0


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