Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] nouveau/u_memcpya: fix NULL vs error pointer bug

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Hi Dan,

On 9/15/23 14:59, Dan Carpenter wrote:
The u_memcpya() function is supposed to return error pointers on
error.  Returning NULL will lead to an Oops.

Fixes: 68132cc6d1bc ("nouveau/u_memcpya: use vmemdup_user")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
index 3666a7403e47..52a708a98915 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ u_memcpya(uint64_t user, unsigned int nmemb, unsigned int size)
  	size_t bytes;
if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(nmemb, size, &bytes)))
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

I plan to replace this function with an upcoming vmemdup_array_user() helper,
which returns -EOVERFLOW instead, hence mind using that?

Unless you disagree, no need to resubmit the patch, I can change it before applying
the patch.

- Danilo

  	return vmemdup_user(userptr, bytes);
  }




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