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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/mediatek: Clean dangling pointer on bind error path
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From:   AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
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Il 21/11/22 23:37, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado ha scritto:
> mtk_drm_bind() can fail, in which case drm_dev_put() is called,
> destroying the drm_device object. However a pointer to it was still
> being held in the private object, and that pointer would be passed along
> to DRM in mtk_drm_sys_prepare() if a suspend were triggered at that
> point, resulting in a panic. Clean the pointer when destroying the
> object in the error path to prevent this from happening.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@collabora.com>
> 

Fixes tag please! :-)

Cheers,
Angelo

> ---
> 
>   drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
> index 39a42dc8fb85..a21ff1b3258c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
> @@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ static int mtk_drm_bind(struct device *dev)
>   err_deinit:
>   	mtk_drm_kms_deinit(drm);
>   err_free:
> +	private->drm = NULL;
>   	drm_dev_put(drm);
>   	return ret;
>   }