From: Salah Triki <salah.triki@gmail.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>,
Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>,
linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] EDAC: altera: Delete an inappropriate dma_free_coherent() call in altr_sdr_mc_err_inject_write()
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 04:15:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aIrfzzqh4IzYtDVC@pc> (raw)
`dma_free_coherent()` must only be called if the corresponding
`dma_alloc_coherent()` call has succeeded. Calling it when the allocation
fails leads to undefined behavior.
Add a check to ensure that the memory is only freed when the allocation
was successful.
Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@gmail.com>
Fixes: 71bcada88b0f3 ("edac: altera: Add Altera SDRAM EDAC support")
Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
index cae52c654a15..7685a8550d4b 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ static ssize_t altr_sdr_mc_err_inject_write(struct file *file,
ptemp = dma_alloc_coherent(mci->pdev, 16, &dma_handle, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ptemp) {
- dma_free_coherent(mci->pdev, 16, ptemp, dma_handle);
edac_printk(KERN_ERR, EDAC_MC,
"Inject: Buffer Allocation error\n");
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-07-31 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-31 3:15 Salah Triki [this message]
2025-08-25 10:49 ` [PATCH] EDAC: altera: Delete an inappropriate dma_free_coherent() call in altr_sdr_mc_err_inject_write() Dinh Nguyen
2025-08-25 11:30 ` Markus Elfring
2025-08-25 12:04 ` Borislav Petkov
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