Re: [PATCH 6.12 1/6] drm/i915/ddi: change intel_ddi_init_{dp, hdmi}_connector() return type

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 03:35:54PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (25/08/05 11:11), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (25/08/04 19:16), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > [ Upstream commit e1980a977686d46dbf45687f7750f1c50d1d6cf8 ]
> > > 
> > > The caller doesn't actually need the returned struct intel_connector;
> > > it's stored in the ->attached_connector of intel_dp and
> > > intel_hdmi. Switch to returning an int with 0 for success and negative
> > > errors codes to be able to indicate success even when we don't have a
> > > connector.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Suraj Kandpal <suraj.kandpal@intel.com>
> > > Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
> > > Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/8ef7fe838231919e85eaead640c51ad3e4550d27.1735568047.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
> > > Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> > 
> > Just for the record, this series fixes multiple NULL-ptr derefs
> > in i915 code, which are observed in the wild.

Note, if you need/want some CVE ids for these, please ask at
cve@kernel.org.

I'll go queue these up now, thanks.

greg k-h