Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751563AbaJAKNw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 06:13:52 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:58877 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750782AbaJAKNv (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 06:13:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 11:13:23 +0100 From: Will Deacon To: Sean Paul Cc: Catalin Marinas , "lauraa@codeaurora.org" , "ritesh.harjani@gmail.com" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "olof@lixom.net" Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Use and error-check DMA_ERROR_CODE Message-ID: <20141001101323.GB2587@arm.com> References: <1412108121-19262-1-git-send-email-seanpaul@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1412108121-19262-1-git-send-email-seanpaul@chromium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sean, On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:15:21PM +0100, Sean Paul wrote: > This patch replaces the static assignment of ~0 to dma_handle with > DMA_ERROR_CODE to be consistent with other platforms. > > In addition to that, it also adds a check for DMA_ERROR_CODE before > calling __dma_free_coherent with an invalid dma_handle. > > Signed-off-by: Sean Paul > --- > arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c > index 4164c5a..69fd2c4 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c > @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static void *__dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, > no_map: > __dma_free_coherent(dev, size, ptr, *dma_handle, attrs); > no_mem: > - *dma_handle = ~0; > + *dma_handle = DMA_ERROR_CODE; > return NULL; > } > > @@ -136,7 +136,9 @@ static void __dma_free_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, > void *swiotlb_addr = phys_to_virt(dma_to_phys(dev, dma_handle)); > > vunmap(vaddr); > - __dma_free_coherent(dev, size, swiotlb_addr, dma_handle, attrs); > + > + if (dma_handle != DMA_ERROR_CODE) > + __dma_free_coherent(dev, size, swiotlb_addr, dma_handle, attrs); Is it legal to try and free a DMA buffer after a failed allocation? If so, I think we need something similar for arch/arm/. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/