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drm/i915: fix possible null pointer dereference

Message ID 1437395369-749-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Sudip Mukherjee July 20, 2015, 12:29 p.m. UTC
We were dereferencing dev first and then checking if it is NULL. Lets
check for NULL first and then dereference.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Chris Wilson July 20, 2015, 12:38 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:59:29PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> We were dereferencing dev first and then checking if it is NULL. Lets
> check for NULL first and then dereference.

The code is bonkers. Testing for a lack of a correctly constructed
debugfs seq_file inside the debugfs seq_file callback is inane.
-Chris
Sudip Mukherjee July 20, 2015, 1:28 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 01:38:46PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:59:29PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > We were dereferencing dev first and then checking if it is NULL. Lets
> > check for NULL first and then dereference.
> 
> The code is bonkers. Testing for a lack of a correctly constructed
> debugfs seq_file inside the debugfs seq_file callback is inane.
I missed seeing before sending this patch that there are some more
places where this has been done.
Then are you suggesting to remove the test?

regards
sudip
Daniel Vetter July 20, 2015, 2:23 p.m. UTC | #3
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 06:58:32PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 01:38:46PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:59:29PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > We were dereferencing dev first and then checking if it is NULL. Lets
> > > check for NULL first and then dereference.
> > 
> > The code is bonkers. Testing for a lack of a correctly constructed
> > debugfs seq_file inside the debugfs seq_file callback is inane.
> I missed seeing before sending this patch that there are some more
> places where this has been done.
> Then are you suggesting to remove the test?

It's all been added for the tp validation support. And yes it should be
removed everywhere.
-Daniel
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
index bc817da..f316e49 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
@@ -4100,12 +4100,13 @@  static int i915_displayport_test_active_show(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
 {
 	struct drm_device *dev = m->private;
 	struct drm_connector *connector;
-	struct list_head *connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list;
+	struct list_head *connector_list;
 	struct intel_dp *intel_dp;
 
 	if (!dev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list;
 	list_for_each_entry(connector, connector_list, head) {
 
 		if (connector->connector_type !=