Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: omap2: Don't call dma_release_channel() if dma_request_chan() failed

[Boris Brezillon]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:47:39 +0300
Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> wrote:

> dma_request_chan() can fail returning an error pointer. In this case
> prevent calling dma_release_channel() to prevent a ERR_PTR() dereference.
> 
> As error path can be called even with no DMA configuration, info->dma can
> be NULL so don't call dma_release_channel() for that case either.
> 
> Fixes: de3bfc4a1616: ("mtd: nand: omap2: fix return value check in omap_nand_probe()")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Brian, can you apply this fix directly?

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c
> index a59361c..5513bfd9 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c
> @@ -2169,7 +2169,7 @@ scan_tail:
>  	return 0;
>  
>  return_error:
> -	if (info->dma)
> +	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(info->dma))
>  		dma_release_channel(info->dma);
>  	if (nand_chip->ecc.priv) {
>  		nand_bch_free(nand_chip->ecc.priv);