Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: Removes unnecessary args check in nouveau_uvmm_sm_prepare

[Danilo Krummrich]

On 11/16/23 21:52, Yuran Pereira wrote:
> Checking `args` after calling `op_map_prepare` is unnecessary since
> if `op_map_prepare` was to be called with  NULL args, it would lead
> to a NULL pointer dereference, thus never hitting that check.
>
> Hence this check can be removed, and a note added to remind users of
> this function to ensure that args != NULL when calling this function
> for a map operation as it was suggested  by Danilo [1]
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6a1ebcef-bade-45a0-9bd9-c05f0226eb88@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Suggested-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yuran Pereira <yuran.pereira@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to drm-misc-next.

> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> index 5cf892c50f43..c8c3f1b1b604 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> @@ -604,6 +604,10 @@ op_unmap_prepare(struct drm_gpuva_op_unmap *u)
>   	drm_gpuva_unmap(u);
>   }
>   
> +/*
> + * Note: @args should not be NULL when calling for
> + * a map operation.
> + */
>   static int
>   nouveau_uvmm_sm_prepare(struct nouveau_uvmm *uvmm,
>   			struct nouveau_uvma_prealloc *new,
> @@ -624,7 +628,7 @@ nouveau_uvmm_sm_prepare(struct nouveau_uvmm *uvmm,
>   			if (ret)
>   				goto unwind;
>   
> -			if (args && vmm_get_range) {
> +			if (vmm_get_range) {
>   				ret = nouveau_uvmm_vmm_get(uvmm, vmm_get_start,
>   							   vmm_get_range);
>   				if (ret) {