Hi Luca, On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 18:58, Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]> wrote: > A patch of mine recently merged in drm-misc-next [1] has a NULL pointer > deref regression (reported here [2] and here [3]). Being in lack of a quick > fix, I sent a revert proposal [4]. > > The revert proposal has no answers currenty, and in the meanwhile I have a > patch that implements the original idea but without the same bug. So here's > a v2 series with: > > - the same revert patch > - the original patch but rewritten without the same bug (and even simpler) > > Also the re-written patch is now split in two for clarity because it was > doing two somewhat different things. > > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250926-drm-bridge-alloc-getput-bridge-connector-v2-1-138b4bb70...@bootlin.com/ > [2] > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > [3] > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYuKHp3QgPKjgFY3TfkDdh5Vf=Ae5pCW+eU41Bu=d7t...@mail.gmail.com/ > [4] > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251016-drm-bridge-alloc-getput-bridge-connector-fix-hdmi_cec-v1-1-81d6984c5...@bootlin.com/ > > Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]> > --- > Changes in v2: > - No changes to the revert patch > - Added the (corrected) patch introducing the same feature as the original > buggy patch, and also split it in two fir clarity > - Link to v1: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251016-drm-bridge-alloc-getput-bridge-connector-fix-hdmi_cec-v1-1-81d6984c5...@bootlin.com
Thanks, this fixes the crash I experienced on Koelsch (R-Car M2-W) (https://lore.kernel.org/CAMuHMdW=zEi4XjG2Qrvj=jca9lpbru7hbtweqvbe0zoz5mv...@mail.gmail.com) Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
