The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
Thanks, Sasha
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 334b56cea5d9df5989be6cf1a5898114fa70ad98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Allen Pan allen.pan@amd.com Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:20:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: Add a dc_state NULL check in dc_state_release
[How] Check wheather state is NULL before releasing it.
Cc: Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com Cc: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Charlene Liu charlene.liu@amd.com Acked-by: Alex Hung alex.hung@amd.com Signed-off-by: Allen Pan allen.pan@amd.com Tested-by: Daniel Wheeler daniel.wheeler@amd.com Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c index 180ac47868c22..5cc7f8da209c5 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_state.c @@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ static void dc_state_free(struct kref *kref)
void dc_state_release(struct dc_state *state) { - kref_put(&state->refcount, dc_state_free); + if (state != NULL) + kref_put(&state->refcount, dc_state_free); } /* * dc_state_add_stream() - Add a new dc_stream_state to a dc_state.