CVE-2021-47165

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/meson: fix shutdown crash when component not probed

When main component is not probed, by example when the dw-hdmi module is not loaded yet or in probe defer, the following crash appears on shutdown:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000038 ... pc : meson_drv_shutdown+0x24/0x50 lr : platform_drv_shutdown+0x20/0x30 ... Call trace: meson_drv_shutdown+0x24/0x50 platform_drv_shutdown+0x20/0x30 device_shutdown+0x158/0x360 kernel_restart_prepare+0x38/0x48 kernel_restart+0x18/0x68 __do_sys_reboot+0x224/0x250 __arm64_sys_reboot+0x24/0x30 ...

Simply check if the priv struct has been allocated before using it.

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