Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] drm/tegra: vic: Fix DMA API misuse

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Thu Dec 16 2021 - 03:55:47 EST


On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 05:54:44PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Upon failure, dma_alloc_coherent() returns NULL. If that does happen,
> passing some uninitialised stack contents to dma_mapping_error() - which
> belongs to a different API in the first place - has precious little
> chance of detecting it.
>
> Also include the correct header, because the fragile transitive
> inclusion currently providing it is going to break soon.
>
> Fixes: 20e7dce255e9 ("drm/tegra: Remove memory allocation from Falcon library")
> CC: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> It also doesn't appear to handle failure of the tegra_drm_alloc() path
> either, but that's a loose thread I have no desire to pull on... ;)
>
> v2: Resend as part of the series, originally posted separately here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/2703882439344010e33bf21ecd63cf9e5e6dc00d.1637781007.git.robin.murphy@xxxxxxx/
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/vic.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks. I've also fixed up the missing failure handling for
tegra_drm_alloc(), which was actually quite trivial to do.

Thierry

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