Re: [PATCH] spi: Assign dummy scatterlist to unidirectional transfers

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed May 29 2024 - 13:35:34 EST


On Wed, 29 May 2024 11:42:35 -0400, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> Commit 8cc3bad9d9d6 ("spi: Remove unneded check for orig_nents")
> introduced a regression: unmapped data could now be passed to the DMA
> APIs, resulting in null pointer dereferences. Commit 9f788ba457b4 ("spi:
> Don't mark message DMA mapped when no transfer in it is") and commit
> da560097c056 ("spi: Check if transfer is mapped before calling DMA sync
> APIs") addressed the problem, but only partially. Unidirectional
> transactions will still result in null pointer dereference. To prevent
> that from happening, assign a dummy scatterlist when no data is mapped,
> so that the DMA API can be called and not result in a null pointer
> dereference.
>
> [...]

Applied to

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi.git for-next

Thanks!

[1/1] spi: Assign dummy scatterlist to unidirectional transfers
commit: 9dedabe95b49ec9b0d16ce8f0ed1f9a12dd4a040

All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during
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Thanks,
Mark