[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/ttm: Handle in-memory region copies" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Dec 5 11:23:43 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/ttm: Handle in-memory region copies

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob at vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:46:56 -0700
Subject: drm/ttm: Handle in-memory region copies
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commit 9a0599ddeae012a771bba5e23393fc52d8a59d89 upstream.

Fix the case where the ttm pointer may be NULL causing
a NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob at vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
index 319cf41..657aeb2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_util.c
@@ -347,7 +347,9 @@ int ttm_bo_move_memcpy(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
 	if (old_iomap == NULL && ttm == NULL)
 		goto out2;

-	if (ttm->state == tt_unpopulated) {
+	/* TTM might be null for moves within the same region.
+	 */
+	if (ttm && ttm->state == tt_unpopulated) {
 		ret = ttm->bdev->driver->ttm_tt_populate(ttm);
 		if (ret) {
 			/* if we fail here don't nuke the mm node
--
1.8.3.2





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