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 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c index 1a422a8..18c011e 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.c @@ -377,10 +377,11 @@ 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++) { + descs = &ioat_chan->descs[idx]; dma_free_coherent(to_dev(ioat_chan), SZ_2M, descs->virt, descs->hw); descs->virt = NULL; -- 1.8.3.1