linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 09/15] drivers: acpi: iort: add support for ARM SMMU platform devices creation

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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:55:04 +0100
From:	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
To:	Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@....com>
Cc:	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>,
	Nate Watterson <nwatters@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	nd@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/15] drivers: acpi: iort: add support for ARM SMMU
 platform devices creation

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 06:50:07PM +0800, Dennis Chen wrote:

[...]

> > +static void __init iort_smmu_init(void)
> > +{
> > +	struct acpi_iort_node *iort_node, *iort_end;
> > +	struct acpi_table_iort *iort;
> > +	struct fwnode_handle *fwnode;
> > +	int i, ret;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * table and iort will both point to the start of IORT table, but
> > +	 * have different struct types
> > +	 */
> > +	iort = (struct acpi_table_iort *)iort_table;
> >
> If the firmware of a platform happens to miss the IORT table, then
> iort_table here will be a NULL pointer, in this case 'NULL pointer
> dereference' kernel panic will occur, if this is not an expected
> behavior then we can add a sanity check here to avoid this.  IORT
> missing is a fatal error? I don't think so.

Yes, I've already fixed it, thanks for pointing that out.

Lorenzo