Messages in this thread | | | From | Mathieu Poirier <> | Date | Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:39:27 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] coresight: Fix csdev connections initialisation |
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On 6 June 2016 at 03:11, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> wrote: > This is a cleanup patch. > > coresight_device->conns holds an array to point to the devices > connected to the OUT ports of a component. Sinks, e.g ETR, do not > have an OUT port (nr_outport = 0), as it streams the trace to > memory via AXI. > > At coresight_register() we do : > > conns = kcalloc(csdev->nr_outport, sizeof(*conns), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!conns) { > ret = -ENOMEM; > goto err_kzalloc_conns; > } > > For ETR, since the total size requested for kcalloc is zero, the return > value is, ZERO_SIZE_PTR ( != NULL). Hence, csdev->conns = ZERO_SIZE_PTR > which cannot be verified later to contain a valid pointer. The code which > accesses the csdev->conns is bounded by the csdev->nr_outport check, > hence we don't try to dereference the ZERO_SIZE_PTR. This patch cleans > up the csdev->conns and csdev->refcnt, initialisation to make sure we
This patch no longer deals with csdev->refcnt.
> initialise it properly(i.e, either NULL or valid conns array). > > Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> > --- > drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 24 ++++++++++++++---------- > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c > index 0fdaaf4..49eb749 100644 > --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c > +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c > @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc) > int nr_refcnts = 1; > atomic_t *refcnts = NULL; > struct coresight_device *csdev; > - struct coresight_connection *conns; > + struct coresight_connection *conns = NULL; > > csdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*csdev), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!csdev) { > @@ -918,16 +918,20 @@ struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc) > > csdev->nr_inport = desc->pdata->nr_inport; > csdev->nr_outport = desc->pdata->nr_outport; > - conns = kcalloc(csdev->nr_outport, sizeof(*conns), GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!conns) { > - ret = -ENOMEM; > - goto err_kzalloc_conns; > - } > > - for (i = 0; i < csdev->nr_outport; i++) { > - conns[i].outport = desc->pdata->outports[i]; > - conns[i].child_name = desc->pdata->child_names[i]; > - conns[i].child_port = desc->pdata->child_ports[i]; > + /* Initialise connections if there is at least one outport */ > + if (csdev->nr_outport) { > + conns = kcalloc(csdev->nr_outport, sizeof(*conns), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!conns) { > + ret = -ENOMEM; > + goto err_kzalloc_conns; > + } > + > + for (i = 0; i < csdev->nr_outport; i++) { > + conns[i].outport = desc->pdata->outports[i]; > + conns[i].child_name = desc->pdata->child_names[i]; > + conns[i].child_port = desc->pdata->child_ports[i]; > + } > } > > csdev->conns = conns; > -- > 1.9.1 >
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