From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Andrew Fleming-AFLEMING <AFLEMING@freescale.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Broken ioremap usage in fsl_pq_mdio.c?
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:11:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F07637A.901@freescale.com> (raw)
I see some odd code in fsl_pq_mdio.c, so I'm hoping someone can clear this up for me. In fsl_pq_mdio_probe(), I see this code:
/* Set the PHY base address */
addr = of_translate_address(np, addrp);
if (addr == OF_BAD_ADDR) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto err_free_bus;
}
map = ioremap(addr, size);
if (!map) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err_free_bus;
}
priv->map = map;
if (of_device_is_compatible(np, "fsl,gianfar-mdio") ||
of_device_is_compatible(np, "fsl,gianfar-tbi") ||
of_device_is_compatible(np, "fsl,ucc-mdio") ||
of_device_is_compatible(np, "ucc_geth_phy"))
map -= offsetof(struct fsl_pq_mdio, miimcfg);
regs = map;
priv->regs = regs;
I don't see how the "map -= offsetof(struct fsl_pq_mdio, miimcfg)" is valid. 'map' initially points to the beginning of an ioremap'd buffer. Subtracting from it will cause it to point to invalid memory area.
I presume this works because ioremap() maps whole pages, and "map - offsetof(struct fsl_pq_mdio, miimcfg)" is still inside that page. However, this is not documented as an assumption, so I don't know if this is really what's intended. Regardless, it seems very fragile. At the very least, there should be another ioremap for priv->regs, but that's still a hack.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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