Re: [PATCH] iommu/dma: Fix check for error return from iommu_map_sg_atomic()

From: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/dma: Fix check for error return from iommu_map_sg_atomic()
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 12:32:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8183a172d9e13d5b69f00ce4382dcaeb5ecdb4f7.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e9356ee-9ae0-fd6d-b4ba-b1f05d8ba144@arm.com>

On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 11:18 +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2022-05-17 11:17, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 10:36 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 05:39:48PM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > > > In __iommu_dma_alloc_noncontiguous() the value returned by
> > > > iommu_map_sg_atomic() is checked for being smaller than size. Before
> > > > commit ad8f36e4b6b1 ("iommu: return full error code from
> > > > iommu_map_sg[_atomic]()") this simply checked if the requested size was
> > > > successfully mapped.
> > > > 
> > > > After that commit iommu_map_sg_atomic() may also return a negative
> > > > error value. In principle this too would be covered by the existing
> > > > check. There is one problem however, as size is of type size_t while the
> > > > return type of iommu_map_sg_atomic() is now of type ssize_t the latter gets
> > > > converted to size_t and negative error values end up as very large
> > > > positive values making the check succeed. Fix this by making the return
> > > > type visible with a local variable and add an explicit cast to ssize_t.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: ad8f36e4b6b1 ("iommu: return full error code from iommu_map_sg[_atomic]()")
> > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > > Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
> > > 
> > > I don't see what the point of the newly added local variable is here.
> > > Just casting size should be all that is needed as far as I can tell.
> > 
> > No technical reason just found it easier to read and more descriptive.
> > I'll sent a v2 with just the cast, it does simplify the commit message.
> 
> Note that this is already fixed upstream, though:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu.git/commit/?h=core&id=a3884774d731f03d3a3dd4fb70ec2d9341ceb39d
> 
> Robin.

Ah oh well then nevermind and you can of course also ignore the v2 I
sent out a minute ago.

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