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drm/amd/display: Fix dereference-before-check for dc_link
authorSrinivasan Shanmugam <srinivasan.shanmugam@amd.com>
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:53:29 +0000 (20:23 +0530)
committerAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:30:14 +0000 (11:30 -0500)
The function dereferences amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link early to
initialize verified_link_cap and dc, but later still checks
amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link for NULL in the analog path.

This late NULL check is redundant, introduce a local dc_link pointer,
use it consistently, and drop the superfluous NULL check while using
dc_link->link_id.id instead.

The function uses dc_link at the very beginning without checking if it
is NULL.  But later in the code, it suddenly checks if dc_link is NULL.

This check is too late to be useful, because the code has already used
dc_link earlier.  So this NULL check does nothing.

We simplify the code by storing amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link in a local
dc_link variable and using it throughout the function.  Since dc_link is
already dereferenced early, the later NULL check is unnecessary and is
removed.

Fixes the below:
  amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes():
  variable dereferenced before check 'amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link'

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
  8845 &amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->verified_link_cap;
  8846 const struct dc *dc = amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->dc;
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                      Dereference
  ...

  8856
  8857 if (amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_sink &&
  8858     amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link &&
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                            Checked too late.
                            Presumably this NULL check could be removed?
  ...

Fixes: d46e422f65ae ("drm/amd/display: Cleanup uses of the analog flag")
Reported by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof@gmail.com>
Cc: Aurabindo Pillai <aurabindo.pillai@amd.com>
Cc: Roman Li <roman.li@amd.com>
Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com>
Cc: Tom Chung <chiahsuan.chung@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Hung <alex.hung@amd.com>
Cc: Ivan Lipski <ivan.lipski@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Shanmugam <srinivasan.shanmugam@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c

index 020f5a4f646320816bfc3d71359541277880fd73..6287cc1bd4cc388242083479893391100c6cf526 100644 (file)
@@ -8854,11 +8854,11 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
 {
        struct amdgpu_dm_connector *amdgpu_dm_connector =
                        to_amdgpu_dm_connector(connector);
+       struct dc_link *dc_link = amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link;
        struct drm_encoder *encoder;
        const struct drm_edid *drm_edid = amdgpu_dm_connector->drm_edid;
-       struct dc_link_settings *verified_link_cap =
-                       &amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->verified_link_cap;
-       const struct dc *dc = amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->dc;
+       struct dc_link_settings *verified_link_cap = &dc_link->verified_link_cap;
+       const struct dc *dc = dc_link->dc;
 
        encoder = amdgpu_dm_connector_to_encoder(connector);
 
@@ -8870,9 +8870,8 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
                                drm_add_modes_noedid(connector, 1920, 1080);
 
                if (amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_sink &&
-                   amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link &&
                    amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_sink->edid_caps.analog &&
-                   dc_connector_supports_analog(amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->link_id.id)) {
+                   dc_connector_supports_analog(dc_link->link_id.id)) {
                        /* Analog monitor connected by DAC load detection.
                         * Add common modes. It will be up to the user to select one that works.
                         */