From: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: fix null dev in dma_pool_create()
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:39:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A2BE19.7000604@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1352097996-25808-1-git-send-email-xi.wang@gmail.com>
A few drivers invoke dma_pool_create() with a null dev. Note that dev
is dereferenced in dev_to_node(dev), causing a null pointer dereference.
A long term solution is to disallow null dev. Once the drivers are
fixed, we can simplify the core code here. For now we add WARN_ON(!dev)
to notify the driver maintainers and avoid the null pointer dereference.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
---
mm/dmapool.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/dmapool.c b/mm/dmapool.c
index c5ab33b..bf7f8f0 100644
--- a/mm/dmapool.c
+++ b/mm/dmapool.c
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev,
{
struct dma_pool *retval;
size_t allocation;
+ int node;
if (align == 0) {
align = 1;
@@ -159,7 +160,9 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const char *name, struct device *dev,
return NULL;
}
- retval = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*retval), GFP_KERNEL, dev_to_node(dev));
+ node = WARN_ON(!dev) ? -1 : dev_to_node(dev);
+
+ retval = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*retval), GFP_KERNEL, node);
if (!retval)
return retval;
--
1.7.10.4
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-13 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-05 6:46 [PATCH] mm: fix NULL checking in dma_pool_create() Xi Wang
2012-11-05 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-05 20:50 ` Xi Wang
2012-11-05 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-06 20:48 ` Xi Wang
2012-11-13 21:39 ` Xi Wang [this message]
2012-11-13 23:01 ` [PATCH v2] mm: fix null dev " David Rientjes
2012-11-14 0:47 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-14 0:58 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-14 5:50 ` Xi Wang
2012-11-14 14:17 ` Felipe Balbi
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