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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: "Su, Xuemin" <xuemin.su@intel.com>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com,
	bo.he@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 RESEND] drm_crtc: check if fb_create return NULL
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:53:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130123095337.GQ31870@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358911167.18561.20.camel@suxuemin.sh.intel.com>

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:19:27AM +0800, Su, Xuemin wrote:
> From: xueminsu <xuemin.su@intel.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:39:39 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] drm_crtc: check if fb_create return NULL
> 
> Some buggy driver may still return NULL in fb_create,
> which leads to kernel panic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: xueminsu <xuemin.su@intel.com>

Imo just BUG_ON(!fb); and call it a day. Makes it pretty clear what's
expected of the drivers.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-23  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23  3:19 Su, Xuemin
2013-01-23  9:53 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2013-01-24  0:27   ` Su, Xuemin

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