Re: [PATCH] pci: pcie-xilinx: fix a missing-check bug for __get_free_pages

From: Steven Price
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 12:26:34 EST


On 14/03/2019 05:58, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> In case __get_free_pages fail, the fix returns to avoid NULL
> pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/pci/controller/pcie-xilinx.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-xilinx.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-xilinx.c
> index 9bd1a35cd5d8..b7083e995c45 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-xilinx.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-xilinx.c
> @@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ static void xilinx_pcie_enable_msi(struct xilinx_pcie_port *port)
> phys_addr_t msg_addr;
>
> port->msi_pages = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
> + if (unlikely(!port->msi_pages))
> + return;

Shouldn't the function return an error code for the calling function to
see? With this change the caller (xilinx_pcie_init_irq_domain) will
think that MSIs were enabled, but actually they weren't.

Steve

> +
> msg_addr = virt_to_phys((void *)port->msi_pages);
> pcie_write(port, 0x0, XILINX_PCIE_REG_MSIBASE1);
> pcie_write(port, msg_addr, XILINX_PCIE_REG_MSIBASE2);
>