If dma_alloc_coherent() returns NULL in ioat_alloc_ring(), ring allocation must not proceed. Until now, if the first call to dma_alloc_coherent() in ioat_alloc_ring() returned NULL, the processing could proceed, failing with NULL-pointer dereferencing further down the line. Signed-off-by: Alexander Barabash <alexander.barabash@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c index 1a422a8..e1553ae 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ struct ioat_ring_ent ** descs->virt = dma_alloc_coherent(to_dev(ioat_chan), SZ_2M, &descs->hw, flags); - if (!descs->virt && (i > 0)) { + if (!descs->virt) { int idx; for (idx = 0; idx < i; idx++) { -- 1.8.3.1