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Message-ID: <20181015170045.GI2400@vkoul-mobl>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:30:45 +0530
From: Vinod <vkoul@...nel.org>
To: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
"moderated list:ARM/STM32 ARCHITECTURE"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] NULL pointer deref fix for stm32-dma
Hi Joel,
On 08-10-18, 22:47, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> While looking at android-4.14, I found a NULL pointer deref with
> stm32-dma driver using Coccicheck errors. I found that upstream had a
> bunch of patches on stm32-dma that have fixed this and other issues, I
> applied these patches cleanly onto Android 4.14. I believe these should
> goto stable and flow into Android 4.14 from there, but I haven't tested
> this since I have no hardware to do so.
>
> Atleast I can say that the coccicheck error below goes away when running:
> make coccicheck MODE=report
> ./drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c:567:18-24: ERROR: chan -> desc is NULL but dereferenced.
>
> Anyway, please consider this series for 4.14 stable, I have CC'd the
> author and others, thanks.
>
> Pierre Yves MORDRET (7):
> dmaengine: stm32-dma: threshold manages with bitfield feature
> dmaengine: stm32-dma: fix incomplete configuration in cyclic mode
> dmaengine: stm32-dma: fix typo and reported checkpatch warnings
> dmaengine: stm32-dma: Improve memory burst management
> dmaengine: stm32-dma: fix DMA IRQ status handling
> dmaengine: stm32-dma: fix max items per transfer
> dmaengine: stm32-dma: properly mask irq bits
It would be good to only cherry pick fixes for this. I do not feel that
some of them which are adding or enhancing driver belong to stable.
Thanks
--
~Vinod
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