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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drm/edid: Fix crash with zero/invalid EDID
Hi Douglas,

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 6:22 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> In the commit bac9c2948224 ("drm/edid: Break out reading block 0 of
> the EDID") I broke out reading the base block of the EDID to its own
> function. Unfortunately, when I did that I messed up the handling when
> drm_edid_is_zero() indicated that we had an EDID that was all 0x00 or
> when we went through 4 loops and didn't get a valid EDID. Specifically
> I needed to pass the broken EDID to connector_bad_edid() but now I was
> passing an error-pointer.
>
> Let's re-jigger things so we can pass the bad EDID in properly.
>
> Fixes: bac9c2948224 ("drm/edid: Break out reading block 0 of the EDID")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>

The crash is was seeing is gone, so
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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

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