On Mon, Oct 11 2021, Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/11/21 1:59 PM, Halil Pasic wrote: >> diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c b/drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c >> index 0fe7b2f2e7f5..c533d1dadc6b 100644 >> --- a/drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c >> +++ b/drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c >> @@ -825,13 +825,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ccw_device_get_chid); >> */ >> void *ccw_device_dma_zalloc(struct ccw_device *cdev, size_t size) >> { >> - return cio_gp_dma_zalloc(cdev->private->dma_pool, &cdev->dev, size); >> + void *addr; >> + >> + if (!get_device(&cdev->dev)) >> + return NULL; >> + addr = cio_gp_dma_zalloc(cdev->private->dma_pool, &cdev->dev, size); >> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(addr)) > > I can be wrong but it seems that only dma_alloc_coherent() used in > cio_gp_dma_zalloc() report an error but the error is ignored and used as > a valid pointer. Hm, I thought dma_alloc_coherent() returned either NULL or a valid address? > > So shouldn't we modify this function and just test for a NULL address here? If I read cio_gp_dma_zalloc() correctly, we either get NULL or a valid address, so yes.