From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Animesh Manna <animesh.manna@intel.com>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/display: fix missing null check on allocated dsb object
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:54:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200616115459.GN4151@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200616114221.73971-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:42:21PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> Currently there is no null check for a failed memory allocation
> on the dsb object and without this a null pointer dereference
> error can occur. Fix this by adding a null check.
>
> Note: added a drm_err message in keeping with the error message style
> in the function.
Don't give in to peer pressure! That's like being a lemming when Disney
film makers come to push you off the cliff to create the 1958 nature
film "White Wilderness".
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-16 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-16 11:42 [PATCH] drm/i915/display: fix missing null check on allocated dsb object Colin King
2020-06-16 11:54 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2020-06-16 11:56 ` Colin Ian King
2020-06-30 11:28 ` Jani Nikula
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