RE: [PATCH] scsi: ufs: mcq: Fix memory allocation checks for SQE and CQE

["Alim Akhtar" <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>]

Hi Alok

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2025 2:06 AM
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> peter.wang@mediatek.com; martin.petersen@oracle.com;
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> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: ufs: mcq: Fix memory allocation checks for SQE and
> CQE
> 
> The previous checks incorrectly tested the DMA addresses returned by
> dmam_alloc_coherent instead of the returned virtual addresses.
> This could cause allocation failures to go unnoticed.
> 
> dmam_alloc_coherent returns the CPU address, not the DMA address.
> Using DMA pointer for NULL check is incorrect.
> 
Right, Zero/NULL can be a valid DMA address and  NULL retuned by
dmam_alloc_coherent()
Is allocation failure. 
May be rephrase your commit message to be more clearer and this patch is
good to go.

> Change checks to verify sqe_base_addr and cqe_base_addr instead of
> sqe_dma_addr and cqe_dma_addr
> 
> Fixes: 4682abfae2eb ("scsi: ufs: core: mcq: Allocate memory for MCQ mode")
> Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
> ---
For v2 patch, feel free to add
Reviewed-by: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>

>  drivers/ufs/core/ufs-mcq.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ufs/core/ufs-mcq.c b/drivers/ufs/core/ufs-mcq.c index
> 1e50675772fe..cc88aaa106da 100644
> --- a/drivers/ufs/core/ufs-mcq.c
> +++ b/drivers/ufs/core/ufs-mcq.c
> @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ int ufshcd_mcq_memory_alloc(struct ufs_hba *hba)
>  		hwq->sqe_base_addr = dmam_alloc_coherent(hba->dev,
> utrdl_size,
>  							 &hwq-
> >sqe_dma_addr,
>  							 GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (!hwq->sqe_dma_addr) {
> +		if (!hwq->sqe_base_addr) {
>  			dev_err(hba->dev, "SQE allocation failed\n");
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		}
> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ int ufshcd_mcq_memory_alloc(struct ufs_hba *hba)
>  		hwq->cqe_base_addr = dmam_alloc_coherent(hba->dev,
> cqe_size,
>  							 &hwq-
> >cqe_dma_addr,
>  							 GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (!hwq->cqe_dma_addr) {
> +		if (!hwq->cqe_base_addr) {
>  			dev_err(hba->dev, "CQE allocation failed\n");
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		}
> --
> 2.50.1