This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: 8250_dma: check the result of TX buffer mapping to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: serial-8250_dma-check-the-result-of-tx-buffer-mapping.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d4089a332883ad969700aac5dd4dd5f1c4fee825 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:59:56 +0300 Subject: serial: 8250_dma: check the result of TX buffer mapping From: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d4089a332883ad969700aac5dd4dd5f1c4fee825 upstream. Using dma_mapping_error() to make sure the mapping did not fail. Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Petallo, MauriceX R" <mauricex.r.petallo@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c @@ -192,21 +192,28 @@ int serial8250_request_dma(struct uart_8 dma->rx_buf = dma_alloc_coherent(dma->rxchan->device->dev, dma->rx_size, &dma->rx_addr, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dma->rx_buf) { - dma_release_channel(dma->rxchan); - dma_release_channel(dma->txchan); - return -ENOMEM; - } + if (!dma->rx_buf) + goto err; /* TX buffer */ dma->tx_addr = dma_map_single(dma->txchan->device->dev, p->port.state->xmit.buf, UART_XMIT_SIZE, DMA_TO_DEVICE); + if (dma_mapping_error(dma->txchan->device->dev, dma->tx_addr)) { + dma_free_coherent(dma->rxchan->device->dev, dma->rx_size, + dma->rx_buf, dma->rx_addr); + goto err; + } dev_dbg_ratelimited(p->port.dev, "got both dma channels\n"); return 0; +err: + dma_release_channel(dma->rxchan); + dma_release_channel(dma->txchan); + + return -ENOMEM; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(serial8250_request_dma); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/serial-8250_dma-check-the-result-of-tx-buffer-mapping.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html