Then, this number of item is stored in 'mcf_edma->n_chans'. A few lines later, if 'mcf_edma->n_chans' is 0, then a default value of 64 is set. This ends to no space allocated by devm_kzalloc() because chans was 0, but 64 items are read and/or written in some not allocated memory. Change the logic to define a default value before allocating the memory. Fixes: e7a3ff92eaf1 ("dmaengine: fsl-edma: add ColdFire mcf5441x edma support") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- If I'm correct, then: - the default value is hard-coded as 64. There is also a #define EDMA_CHANNELS 64 which maybe could be used, or renamed as EDMA_DEFAULT_CHANNELS - mcf_edma_err_handler() looks bogus, because it considers that mcf_edma->chans has EDMA_CHANNELS items. I guess that something related to mcf_edma->n_chans is what is expected, but how should this be done? Maybe, the EDMA_CHANNELS value should be used all the time? Maybe, the number of chans should be limited to EDMA_CHANNELS? Maybe, the number of chans should be at least EDMA_CHANNELS? Maybe, maybe, maybe, but me, I don't know :( All I know is that this patch compiles :) and that it can gives Dan an idea for smatch for checking access to un-allocated memory related to flexible array :) --- drivers/dma/mcf-edma.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/mcf-edma.c b/drivers/dma/mcf-edma.c index ebd8733f72ad..9413fad08a60 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/mcf-edma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/mcf-edma.c @@ -190,7 +190,13 @@ static int mcf_edma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -EINVAL; } - chans = pdata->dma_channels; + if (!pdata->dma_channels) { + dev_info(&pdev->dev, "setting default channel number to 64"); + chans = 64; + } else { + chans = pdata->dma_channels; + } + len = sizeof(*mcf_edma) + sizeof(*mcf_chan) * chans; mcf_edma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!mcf_edma) @@ -202,11 +208,6 @@ static int mcf_edma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) mcf_edma->drvdata = &mcf_data; mcf_edma->big_endian = 1; - if (!mcf_edma->n_chans) { - dev_info(&pdev->dev, "setting default channel number to 64"); - mcf_edma->n_chans = 64; - } - mutex_init(&mcf_edma->fsl_edma_mutex); mcf_edma->membase = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0); -- 2.34.1