linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: stm32-dma: Fix unchecked deference of chan->desc

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:45:44 +0530
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	M'boumba Cedric Madianga <cedric.madianga@...il.com>
Cc:	dan.j.williams@...el.com, mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: stm32-dma: Fix unchecked deference of
 chan->desc

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 12:00:28PM +0100, M'boumba Cedric Madianga wrote:
> 'commit d8b468394fb7 ("dmaengine: Add STM32 DMA driver")' leads to the
> following Smatch complaint:
> 
> drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c:562 stm32_dma_issue_pending()
>     error: we previously assumed 'chan->desc' could be null (see line 560)
> 
> So, this patch fixes the unchecked dereference of chan->desc by returning
> operation not permitted error when stm32_dma_start_transfer() does not
> succeed to allocate a virtual channel descriptor.

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod
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