The original commit adding that check tried to protect the kenrel against a potential invalid NULL pointer access.
However we call nouveau_connector_detect_depth once without a native_mode set on purpose for non LVDS connectors and this broke DP support in a few cases. Cc: Olaf Skibbe <n...@kravcenko.com> Cc: Lyude Paul <ly...@redhat.com> Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/238 Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/245 Fixes: 20a2ce87fbaf8 ("drm/nouveau/dp: check for NULL nv_connector->native_mode") Signed-off-by: Karol Herbst <kher...@redhat.com> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c index f75c6f09dd2af..a2e0033e8a260 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c @@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ nouveau_connector_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector) /* Determine display colour depth for everything except LVDS now, * DP requires this before mode_valid() is called. */ - if (connector->connector_type != DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS && nv_connector->native_mode) + if (connector->connector_type != DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS) nouveau_connector_detect_depth(connector); /* Find the native mode if this is a digital panel, if we didn't -- 2.41.0
