[PATCH 4.14 08/53] dmaengine: rcar-dmac: Reject zero-length slave DMA requests

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Aug 05 2019 - 09:08:01 EST


[ Upstream commit 78efb76ab4dfb8f74f290ae743f34162cd627f19 ]

While the .device_prep_slave_sg() callback rejects empty scatterlists,
it still accepts single-entry scatterlists with a zero-length segment.
These may happen if a driver calls dmaengine_prep_slave_single() with a
zero len parameter. The corresponding DMA request will never complete,
leading to messages like:

rcar-dmac e7300000.dma-controller: Channel Address Error happen

and DMA timeouts.

Although requesting a zero-length DMA request is a driver bug, rejecting
it early eases debugging. Note that the .device_prep_dma_memcpy()
callback already rejects requests to copy zero bytes.

Reported-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Analyzed-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
index 77b126525daca..19c7433e83097 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
@@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ rcar_dmac_prep_slave_sg(struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl,
struct rcar_dmac_chan *rchan = to_rcar_dmac_chan(chan);

/* Someone calling slave DMA on a generic channel? */
- if (rchan->mid_rid < 0 || !sg_len) {
+ if (rchan->mid_rid < 0 || !sg_len || !sg_dma_len(sgl)) {
dev_warn(chan->device->dev,
"%s: bad parameter: len=%d, id=%d\n",
__func__, sg_len, rchan->mid_rid);
--
2.20.1