linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: pxa_dma: Remove an erroneous BUG_ON() in pxad_free

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Message-Id: <169683193345.43997.16902412199226518649.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:42:13 +0530
From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
To: keescook@...omium.org, gustavoars@...nel.org, 
 Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>, Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>, 
 Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>, 
 Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, 
 dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmaengine: pxa_dma: Remove an erroneous BUG_ON()
 in pxad_free_desc()


On Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:13:09 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> If pxad_alloc_desc() fails on the first dma_pool_alloc() call, then
> sw_desc->nb_desc is zero.
> In such a case pxad_free_desc() is called and it will BUG_ON().
> 
> Remove this erroneous BUG_ON().
> 
> It is also useless, because if "sw_desc->nb_desc == 0", then, on the first
> iteration of the for loop, i is -1 and the loop will not be executed.
> (both i and sw_desc->nb_desc are 'int')
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/2] dmaengine: pxa_dma: Remove an erroneous BUG_ON() in pxad_free_desc()
      commit: 83c761f568733277ce1f7eb9dc9e890649c29a8c
[2/2] dmaengine: pxa_dma: Annotate struct pxad_desc_sw with __counted_by
      commit: 0481291f0ccbc5147635cf0eb108f9fe5a05ee7d

Best regards,
-- 
~Vinod