Re: [PATCH 1/2] iommu/s390: Use iommu_group_get_for_dev() in s390_iommu_add_device()

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 11:26:27 EST


Hi Gerald,

sorry for the delay. Answers inline.

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 07:33:01PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> Seems pretty straightforward, so
> Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I add it to the patch.

> With generic_device_group() returning NULL in case the allocation failed,
> this part of iommu_group_get_for_dev() would then happily dereference the
> NULL pointer, because IS_ERR(group) would be false:

Yeah, you are right, this is a bug. I'll send a patch to fix this
shortly. I don't remember whether there was a good reason to drop the
error values in the device_group call-backs. Probably there is none and
I can just pass the error value up instead of NULLing them out.



Joerg