Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] s390/cio: make ccw_device_dma_* more robust

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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.




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