Patch "drm/i915: Fix oops in overlay due to frontbuffer tracking" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

drm/i915: Fix oops in overlay due to frontbuffer tracking

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
drm-i915-fix-oops-in-overlay-due-to-frontbuffer-tracking.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Syrj=C3=A4l=C3=A4?= <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 19:28:03 +0200
Subject: drm/i915: Fix oops in overlay due to frontbuffer tracking
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From: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>

commit 9169757ae67bc927750ae907624e65cc15b4fe5a upstream.

The vma will be NULL if the overlay was previously off, so dereferencing it will oops. Check for NULL before doing that.

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_overlay.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -840,8 +840,8 @@ static int intel_overlay_do_put_image(st
 	if (ret)
 		goto out_unpin;
 
-	i915_gem_track_fb(overlay->vma->obj, new_bo,
-			  INTEL_FRONTBUFFER_OVERLAY(pipe));
+	i915_gem_track_fb(overlay->vma ? overlay->vma->obj : NULL,
+			  vma->obj, INTEL_FRONTBUFFER_OVERLAY(pipe));
 
 	overlay->old_vma = overlay->vma;
 	overlay->vma = vma;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/drm-i915-fix-oopses-in-the-overlay-code-due-to-i915_gem_active-stuff.patch queue-4.9/drm-i915-initialize-overlay-last_flip-properly.patch queue-4.9/drm-i915-force-vdd-off-on-the-new-power-seqeuencer-before-starting-to-use-it.patch queue-4.9/drm-i915-fix-oops-in-overlay-due-to-frontbuffer-tracking.patch