The patch below does not apply to the 4.17-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,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 642ad57058baaa2c105925a75c153bb486877513 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harry Wentland harry.wentland@amd.com Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:51:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "drm/amd/display: fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
This reverts commit cd2d6c92a8e39d7e50a5af9fcc67d07e6a89e91d.
Cc: Shirish S shirish.s@amd.com Cc: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer michel.daenzer@amd.com Signed-off-by: Harry Wentland harry.wentland@amd.com Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c index 265f0166f688..0c29f3b97398 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c @@ -4941,9 +4941,6 @@ static int dm_atomic_check_plane_state_fb(struct drm_atomic_state *state, return -EDEADLK;
crtc_state = drm_atomic_get_crtc_state(plane_state->state, crtc); - if (IS_ERR(crtc_state)) - return PTR_ERR(crtc_state); - if (crtc->primary == plane && crtc_state->active) { if (!plane_state->fb) return -EINVAL;