From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Thomas Tai <thomas.tai@oracle.com>
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, robin.murphy@arm.com,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-direct: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:19:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200916061949.GA8599@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5136ed8d-d37d-8144-a6f3-c23f272d8926@oracle.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 04:46:17PM -0400, Thomas Tai wrote:
> I tried out the suggested changes, and it successfully warned the null
> pointer without panic. I notice that there are some places outside the
> dma-direct, which calls dma_capable().
>
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.9-rc5/source/arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c#L187
>
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.9-rc5/source/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c#L387
All of these still come in throught the wrappers in kernel/dma/mapping.c.
> Given that the WARN_ON_ONCE already did the intended warning, would you be
> ok that I keep the null checking in dma_capable()?
No, the generic dma mapping layer is the right place.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-15 14:03 [PATCH] dma-direct: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference Thomas Tai
2020-09-15 14:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-15 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-15 14:11 ` Thomas Tai
2020-09-15 14:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-15 14:40 ` Thomas Tai
2020-09-15 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-15 15:12 ` Thomas Tai
2020-09-15 20:46 ` Thomas Tai
2020-09-16 6:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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