Re: [PATCH] cxl/region: Guard against a missing peer mapping

[Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 03:25:14PM +0800, Alison Schofield wrote:
> When two endpoints share a dport, both must be mapped by the port.
> 
> sashiko-bot reports that a missing peer mapping could result in a NULL
> pointer dereference during region creation.
> 
> No caller can reach this today. Guard it anyway so a future violation
> of the mapping requirement fails region creation rather than causing
> an oops.
> 
> Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
> Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/cover.1787255388.git.alison.schofield%40intel.com?part=3
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cxl/core/region.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> index 27e63e6dab7c..75b8092e6dc2 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> @@ -1367,7 +1367,8 @@ static int check_last_peer(struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled,
>  	/*
>  	 * If this position wants to share a dport with the last endpoint mapped
>  	 * then that endpoint, at index 'position - distance', must also be
> -	 * mapped by this dport.
> +	 * mapped by this dport. An endpoint that this port does not map at all
> +	 * fails that requirement.
>  	 */
>  	if (pos < distance) {
>  		dev_dbg(&cxlr->dev, "%s:%s: cannot host %s:%s at %d\n",
> @@ -1378,7 +1379,7 @@ static int check_last_peer(struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled,
>  	cxled_peer = p->targets[pos - distance];
>  	cxlmd_peer = cxled_to_memdev(cxled_peer);
>  	ep_peer = cxl_ep_load(port, cxlmd_peer);
> -	if (ep->dport != ep_peer->dport) {
> +	if (!ep_peer || ep->dport != ep_peer->dport) {
>  		dev_dbg(&cxlr->dev,
>  			"%s:%s: %s:%s pos %d mismatched peer %s:%s\n",
>  			dev_name(port->uport_dev), dev_name(&port->dev),
> 
> base-commit: 7098e9cd98a05c0c5de2fae0c2465f9d966fdd07
> -- 
> 2.37.3
> 
>

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>

Best regards,
Richard Cheng.