Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: stm32-dma: Fix static checker warning

Vinod Koul
2015-12-05T08:19:00Z

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 09:52:35AM +0100, M'boumba Cedric Madianga wrote:

Title should say what is fixes rather than what flagged it off

> This patch fix an unchecked dereference warning by returning operation
> not permitted when stm32_dma_start_transfer() does not succeed to allocate
> a virtual channel descriptor.
>

Also we give credit to reported by using tag Reported-by: xxx, pls add that
as well

> Signed-off-by: M'boumba Cedric Madianga <cedric.madianga@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c b/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
> index 12f3a3e..0214bcf 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
> @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static int stm32_dma_start_transfer(struct stm32_dma_chan *chan)
> if (!chan->desc) {
> vdesc = vchan_next_desc(&chan->vchan);
> if (!vdesc)
> - return 0;
> + return -EPERM;
>
> chan->desc = to_stm32_dma_desc(vdesc);
> chan->next_sg = 0;
> --
> 1.9.1
>

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~Vinod