Hi Jiasheng Jiang,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2021 3:45 PM
> To: Saurav Kashyap <skashyap@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Javed Hasan
> <jhasan@xxxxxxxxxxx>; GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream <GR-QLogic-Storage-
> Upstream@xxxxxxxxxxx>; jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx;
> linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [EXT] [PATCH] scsi: qedf: potential dereference of null pointer
>
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> The return value of dma_alloc_coherent() needs to be checked.
> To avoid use of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc.
>
> Fixes: 61d8658b4a43 ("scsi: qedf: Add QLogic FastLinQ offload FCoE driver
> framework.")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c b/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c
> index b92570a7c309..309e205a8e70 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c
> @@ -1415,6 +1415,8 @@ static void qedf_upload_connection(struct qedf_ctx
> *qedf,
> */
> term_params = dma_alloc_coherent(&qedf->pdev->dev,
> QEDF_TERM_BUFF_SIZE,
> &term_params_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!term_params)
> + return;
<SK> Adding message about failure before returning will help in debugging.
Thanks,
~Saurav
>
> QEDF_INFO(&(qedf->dbg_ctx), QEDF_LOG_CONN, "Uploading
> connection "
> "port_id=%06x.\n", fcport->rdata->ids.port_id);
> --
> 2.25.1
