* [PATCH v2] EDAC: altera: Delete an inappropriate dma_free_coherent() call in altr_sdr_mc_err_inject_write()
@ 2025-08-25 11:50 Salah Triki
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From: Salah Triki @ 2025-08-25 11:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dinh Nguyen, Borislav Petkov, Tony Luck, James Morse,
Markus.Elfring, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Robert Richter, linux-edac,
linux-kernel
Cc: salah.triki
`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, so remove it.
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
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
---
Changes in v2:
- Improve commit message, as suggested by Markus Elfring.
- Add Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@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
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