[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/vmwgfx: Fix kernel NULL pointer dereference on older hardware" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    drm/vmwgfx: Fix kernel NULL pointer dereference on older hardware

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt9.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 64bc286971a1c26e206ab22006fba70e14ec9ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 01:49:39 -0700
Subject: drm/vmwgfx: Fix kernel NULL pointer dereference on older hardware

commit ed7d78b2da32198ca4c70172e3b63c6b3e2c570b upstream.

The commit "drm/vmwgfx: Fix up user_dmabuf refcounting", while fixing a
kernel crash introduced a NULL pointer dereference on older hardware.
Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh at vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
index 9e190db6..17a4107 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
@@ -653,7 +653,8 @@ static void vmw_user_surface_base_release(struct ttm_base_object **p_base)
 	struct vmw_resource *res = &user_srf->srf.res;

 	*p_base = NULL;
-	ttm_base_object_unref(&user_srf->backup_base);
+	if (user_srf->backup_base)
+		ttm_base_object_unref(&user_srf->backup_base);
 	vmw_resource_unreference(&res);
 }

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