[PATCH] dmaengine: fsl_raid: avoid free_q underflow in free_chan_resources

From: Rosen Penev

Date: Sat Jul 18 2026 - 19:52:36 EST


fsl_re_free_chan_resources() loops alloc_count times calling
list_first_entry() on free_q without checking whether the list still
has entries. If descriptors remain un-acked or pending in submit_q /
active_q / ack_q when the channel resources are freed, free_q becomes
smaller than alloc_count and list_first_entry() returns the list head,
causing list_del() to corrupt the list head and dereference a bogus
pointer.

Walk free_q with list_for_each_entry_safe() until it is empty,
decrementing alloc_count per freed descriptor, instead of relying on
the alloc_count count.

Fixes: ad80da658bbc ("dmaengine: Driver support for FSL RaidEngine device.")
Assisted-by: opencode:hy3-free
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/fsl_raid.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/fsl_raid.c b/drivers/dma/fsl_raid.c
index 30aaca81d855..db86f3e4e460 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/fsl_raid.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/fsl_raid.c
@@ -614,18 +614,15 @@ static int fsl_re_alloc_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *chan)
static void fsl_re_free_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *chan)
{
struct fsl_re_chan *re_chan;
- struct fsl_re_desc *desc;
+ struct fsl_re_desc *desc, *_desc;

re_chan = container_of(chan, struct fsl_re_chan, chan);
- while (re_chan->alloc_count--) {
- desc = list_first_entry(&re_chan->free_q,
- struct fsl_re_desc,
- node);
-
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(desc, _desc, &re_chan->free_q, node) {
list_del(&desc->node);
dma_pool_free(re_chan->re_dev->cf_desc_pool, desc->cf_addr,
desc->cf_paddr);
kfree(desc);
+ re_chan->alloc_count--;
}

if (!list_empty(&re_chan->free_q))
--
2.55.0