This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/sti: sti_vtg: Handle return NULL error from devm_ioremap_nocache
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: drm-sti-sti_vtg-handle-return-null-error-from-devm_ioremap_nocache.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 12:16:40 CET 2017
From: Arvind Yadav arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:00:12 +0530 Subject: drm/sti: sti_vtg: Handle return NULL error from devm_ioremap_nocache
From: Arvind Yadav arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 1ae0d5af347df224a6e76334683f13a96d915a44 ]
Here, If devm_ioremap_nocache will fail. It will return NULL. Kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference. This error check will avoid NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com Acked-by: Vincent Abriou vincent.abriou@st.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c @@ -303,6 +303,10 @@ static int vtg_probe(struct platform_dev return -ENOMEM; } vtg->regs = devm_ioremap_nocache(dev, res->start, resource_size(res)); + if (!vtg->regs) { + DRM_ERROR("failed to remap I/O memory\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + }
np = of_parse_phandle(pdev->dev.of_node, "st,slave", 0); if (np) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com are
queue-3.18/gpu-drm-mgag200-mgag200_main-handle-error-from-pci_iomap.patch queue-3.18/media-imon-fix-null-ptr-deref-in-imon_probe.patch queue-3.18/drm-sti-sti_vtg-handle-return-null-error-from-devm_ioremap_nocache.patch