Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Fix 'Null pointer dereferences' issue

From: Qianqiang Liu
Date: Wed Sep 04 2024 - 06:15:23 EST


Hi Ethan,

No, I don’t hit any issues so far.
It was scanned by Coverity, and I tried to fix it.
If you think it's not an issue, we can just ignore it.

On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:49:49PM +0800, Ethan Zhao wrote:
>
> On 9/3/2024 10:46 PM, Qianqiang Liu wrote:
> > Passing null pointer "pdev" to "pci_enable_pasid", which dereferences it.
> > Check the "pdev" is null or not before passing to "pci_enable_pasid".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Qianqiang Liu <qianqiang.liu@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> > index 9f6b0780f2ef..a1e54f334330 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
> > @@ -3935,7 +3935,7 @@ static struct iommu_device *intel_iommu_probe_device(struct device *dev)
> > * So always enable PASID support on devices which have it, even if
> > * we can't yet know if we're ever going to use it.
> > */
> > - if (info->pasid_supported &&
> > + if (info->pasid_supported && pdev &&
> > !pci_enable_pasid(pdev, info->pasid_supported & ~1))
>
> You hit any issue with specific ver kernel ? seems impossible to hit
> such NULL pointer issue with the latest kernel for which you sent
> this patch.
>
> Thanks,
> Ethan
>
> > info->pasid_enabled = 1;