Re: [PATCH V1] accel/amdxdna: Return ERR_PTR on dma_alloc_noncoherent failure

From: Lizhi Hou

Date: Mon Mar 23 2026 - 16:38:28 EST


Applied to drm-misc-next

On 3/23/26 10:56, Mario Limonciello (AMD) (kernel.org) wrote:


On 3/23/2026 12:37 PM, Lizhi Hou wrote:
From: Wendy Liang <wendy.liang@xxxxxxx>

dma_alloc_noncoherent() returns NULL on failure, but callers of
aie2_alloc_msg_buffer() check for IS_ERR(). Return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)
instead of NULL to match the amdxdna_iommu_alloc() path and the
caller's error checking convention.

Fixes: ece3e8980907 ("accel/amdxdna: Allow forcing IOVA-based DMA via module parameter")
Signed-off-by: Wendy Liang <wendy.liang@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@xxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c | 7 ++++++-
  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
index 7e219a5eda56..a1c546c3e81c 100644
--- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
+++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ void *aie2_alloc_msg_buffer(struct amdxdna_dev_hdl *ndev, u32 *size,
                  dma_addr_t *dma_addr)
  {
      struct amdxdna_dev *xdna = ndev->xdna;
+    void *vaddr;
      int order;
        *size = max(*size, SZ_8K);
@@ -67,8 +68,12 @@ void *aie2_alloc_msg_buffer(struct amdxdna_dev_hdl *ndev, u32 *size,
      if (amdxdna_iova_on(xdna))
          return amdxdna_iommu_alloc(xdna, *size, dma_addr);
  -    return dma_alloc_noncoherent(xdna->ddev.dev, *size, dma_addr,
+    vaddr = dma_alloc_noncoherent(xdna->ddev.dev, *size, dma_addr,
                        DMA_FROM_DEVICE, GFP_KERNEL);
+    if (!vaddr)
+        return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+    return vaddr;
  }
    void aie2_free_msg_buffer(struct amdxdna_dev_hdl *ndev, size_t size,
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>