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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4hJ62nDgEUpOg4ttbZbKUQctGF_adfHOJy0tHBNraeLPQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 07:40:21 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Huaisheng Ye <yehs2007@...o.com>
Cc:     linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, NingTing Cheng <chengnt@...ovo.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@...ovo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] nvdimm/pmem: check the validity of the pointer pfn

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:40 PM, Huaisheng Ye <yehs2007@...o.com> wrote:
> From: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@...ovo.com>
>
> Some functions within fs/dax don't need to get gfn from direct_access.
> Assigning NULL to gfn of dax_direct_access is more intuitive and simple
> than offering a useless local variable.
>
> So direct_access needs to check validity of the pointer pfn For NULL
> assignment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@...ovo.com>
> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> index 9d71492..018f990 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c
> @@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ __weak long __pmem_direct_access(struct pmem_device *pmem, pgoff_t pgoff,
>                                         PFN_PHYS(nr_pages))))
>                 return -EIO;
>         *kaddr = pmem->virt_addr + offset;
> -       *pfn = phys_to_pfn_t(pmem->phys_addr + offset, pmem->pfn_flags);
> +       if (pfn)
> +               *pfn = phys_to_pfn_t(pmem->phys_addr + offset, pmem->pfn_flags);
>
>         /*
>          * If badblocks are present, limit known good range to the

Looks good. You also need to update the unit test infrastructure
version of this operation in:

    tools/testing/nvdimm/pmem-dax.c

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