Hi Srinivasan,

The patch looks good and I will send it to promotion test next week.

On 11/21/25 08:02, Srinivasan Shanmugam wrote:
The function dereferences amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link early to
initialize verified_link_cap and dc, but later still checks
amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link for NULL in the analog path.

This late NULL check is redundant, introduce a local dc_link pointer,
use it consistently, and drop the superfluous NULL check while using
dc_link->link_id.id instead.

The function uses dc_link at the very beginning without checking if it
is NULL.  But later in the code, it suddenly checks if dc_link is NULL.

This check is too late to be useful, because the code has already used
dc_link earlier.  So this NULL check does nothing.

We simplify the code by storing amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link in a local
dc_link variable and using it throughout the function.  Since dc_link is
already dereferenced early, the later NULL check is unnecessary and is
removed.

Fixes the below:
   amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes():
   variable dereferenced before check 'amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link'

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
   8845                         
&amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->verified_link_cap;
   8846         const struct dc *dc = amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->dc;
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                       Dereference
   ...

   8856
   8857                 if (amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_sink &&
   8858                     amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link &&
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                             Checked too late.
                             Presumably this NULL check could be removed?
   ...

Fixes: c8f52ca2cefb ("drm/amd/display: Cleanup uses of the analog flag")
Reported by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Cc: Timur Kristóf <[email protected]>
Cc: Aurabindo Pillai <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Harry Wentland <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Chung <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Shanmugam <[email protected]>
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 9 ++++-----
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
index 8a0555365719..6eb88a96cc33 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
@@ -8818,11 +8818,11 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes(struct 
drm_connector *connector)
  {
        struct amdgpu_dm_connector *amdgpu_dm_connector =
                        to_amdgpu_dm_connector(connector);
+       struct dc_link *dc_link = amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link;
        struct drm_encoder *encoder;
        const struct drm_edid *drm_edid = amdgpu_dm_connector->drm_edid;
-       struct dc_link_settings *verified_link_cap =
-                       &amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->verified_link_cap;
-       const struct dc *dc = amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->dc;
+       struct dc_link_settings *verified_link_cap = 
&dc_link->verified_link_cap;
+       const struct dc *dc = dc_link->dc;
encoder = amdgpu_dm_connector_to_encoder(connector); @@ -8834,9 +8834,8 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector)
                                drm_add_modes_noedid(connector, 1920, 1080);
if (amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_sink &&
-                   amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link &&
                    amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_sink->edid_caps.analog &&
-                   
dc_connector_supports_analog(amdgpu_dm_connector->dc_link->link_id.id)) {
+                   dc_connector_supports_analog(dc_link->link_id.id)) {
                        /* Analog monitor connected by DAC load detection.
                         * Add common modes. It will be up to the user to 
select one that works.
                         */

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