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SubjectRe: [PATCH][next] PCI: mediatek-gen3: Add missing null pointer check
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 11:34:50AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 09:47:06AM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > Le 29/04/2021 à 13:00, Colin King a écrit :
> > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > >
> > > The call to platform_get_resource_byname can potentially return null, so
> > > add a null pointer check to avoid a null pointer dereference issue.
> > >
> > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return")
> > > Fixes: 441903d9e8f0 ("PCI: mediatek-gen3: Add MediaTek Gen3 driver for MT8192")
> > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c | 2 ++
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> > > index 20165e4a75b2..3c5b97716d40 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek-gen3.c
> > > @@ -721,6 +721,8 @@ static int mtk_pcie_parse_port(struct mtk_pcie_port *port)
> > > int ret;
> > > regs = platform_get_resource_byname(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, "pcie-mac");
> > > + if (!regs)
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > port->base = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, regs);
> > > if (IS_ERR(port->base)) {
> > > dev_err(dev, "failed to map register base\n");
> > >
> >
> > Nitpick:
> > Using 'devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname' is slightly less verbose
> > and should please Coverity.
>
> Not a nitpick at all. Jianjun is correct that devm_ioremap_resource()
> does check "regs" for NULL and it fails gracefully before trying to
> dereference it, so the extra check shouldn't be needed. And most
> cases in drivers/pci/ look like this, without the extra check:
>
> res = platform_get_resource_byname(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, "app");
> base = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, res);
> if (IS_ERR(base))
> ...
>
> If devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname() keeps Coverity happy, I
> think that's what we should be doing across drivers/pci/. Coverity
> false positives are a hassle.

Smatch knows that devm_ioremap_resource() will return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL)
when we pass it a NULL. ;)

regards,
dan carpenter

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