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Message-ID: <92c8f778-cd94-4113-8b9e-699b8ffa9fa2@oss.nxp.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:52:10 +0800
From: "Ming Qian(OSS)" <ming.qian@....nxp.com>
To: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@...labora.com>
Cc: mchehab@...nel.org, hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl, mirela.rabulea@....nxp.com,
shawnguo@...nel.org, s.hauer@...gutronix.de, kernel@...gutronix.de,
festevam@...il.com, xiahong.bao@....com, eagle.zhou@....com,
linux-imx@....com, imx@...ts.linux.dev, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] media: imx-jpeg: Enhance error handling in buffer
allocation
Hi Sebastian,
On 2025/4/5 19:39, Sebastian Fricke wrote:
> Hey Ming,
>
> In the title I'd suggest:
> media: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error
>
> To be a bit more concrete, enhance error handling can mean pretty much
> anything.
>
Thanks, I'll apply your suggestion
> On 28.03.2025 14:30, ming.qian@....nxp.com wrote:
>> From: Ming Qian <ming.qian@....nxp.com>
>>
>> In function mxc_jpeg_alloc_slot_data, driver will allocate some dma
>> buffer, but only return error if certain allocation failed.
>>
>> Without cleanup the allocation failure, the next time it will return
>> success directly, but let some buffer be uninitialized.
>> It may result in accessing a null pointer.
>>
>> Clean up if error occurs in the allocation.
>
> I'd suggest:
>
> When allocation failures are not cleaned up by the driver, further
> allocation
> errors will be false-positives, which will cause buffers to remain
> uninitialized and cause NULL pointer dereferences.
> Clean up the errors accordingly.
>
Thanks, I'll apply your suggestion
>>
>> Fixes: 2db16c6ed72c ("media: imx-jpeg: Add V4L2 driver for i.MX8 JPEG
>> Encoder/Decoder")
>> Signed-off-by: Ming Qian <ming.qian@....nxp.com>
>> ---
>> v2
>> - Add the Fixes tag
>>
>> .../media/platform/nxp/imx-jpeg/mxc-jpeg.c | 47 +++++++++++--------
>> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-jpeg/mxc-jpeg.c
>> b/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-jpeg/mxc-jpeg.c
>> index 0e6ee997284b..12661c177f5a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-jpeg/mxc-jpeg.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-jpeg/mxc-jpeg.c
>> @@ -752,6 +752,32 @@ static int mxc_get_free_slot(struct
>> mxc_jpeg_slot_data *slot_data)
>> return -1;
>> }
>>
>> +static void mxc_jpeg_free_slot_data(struct mxc_jpeg_dev *jpeg)
>> +{
>> + /* free descriptor for decoding/encoding phase */
>> + dma_free_coherent(jpeg->dev, sizeof(struct mxc_jpeg_desc),
>> + jpeg->slot_data.desc,
>> + jpeg->slot_data.desc_handle);
>> + jpeg->slot_data.desc = NULL;
>> + jpeg->slot_data.desc_handle = 0;
>> +
>> + /* free descriptor for encoder configuration phase / decoder DHT */
>> + dma_free_coherent(jpeg->dev, sizeof(struct mxc_jpeg_desc),
>> + jpeg->slot_data.cfg_desc,
>> + jpeg->slot_data.cfg_desc_handle);
>> + jpeg->slot_data.cfg_desc_handle = 0;
>> + jpeg->slot_data.cfg_desc = NULL;
>> +
>> + /* free configuration stream */
>> + dma_free_coherent(jpeg->dev, MXC_JPEG_MAX_CFG_STREAM,
>> + jpeg->slot_data.cfg_stream_vaddr,
>> + jpeg->slot_data.cfg_stream_handle);
>> + jpeg->slot_data.cfg_stream_vaddr = NULL;
>> + jpeg->slot_data.cfg_stream_handle = 0;
>> +
>> + jpeg->slot_data.used = false;
>> +}
>> +
>> static bool mxc_jpeg_alloc_slot_data(struct mxc_jpeg_dev *jpeg)
>> {
>> struct mxc_jpeg_desc *desc;
>> @@ -794,30 +820,11 @@ static bool mxc_jpeg_alloc_slot_data(struct
>> mxc_jpeg_dev *jpeg)
>> return true;
>> err:
>> dev_err(jpeg->dev, "Could not allocate descriptors for slot %d",
>> jpeg->slot_data.slot);
>> + mxc_jpeg_free_slot_data(jpeg);
>>
>> return false;
>> }
>>
>> -static void mxc_jpeg_free_slot_data(struct mxc_jpeg_dev *jpeg)
>> -{
>> - /* free descriptor for decoding/encoding phase */
>> - dma_free_coherent(jpeg->dev, sizeof(struct mxc_jpeg_desc),
>> - jpeg->slot_data.desc,
>> - jpeg->slot_data.desc_handle);
>> -
>> - /* free descriptor for encoder configuration phase / decoder DHT */
>> - dma_free_coherent(jpeg->dev, sizeof(struct mxc_jpeg_desc),
>> - jpeg->slot_data.cfg_desc,
>> - jpeg->slot_data.cfg_desc_handle);
>> -
>> - /* free configuration stream */
>> - dma_free_coherent(jpeg->dev, MXC_JPEG_MAX_CFG_STREAM,
>> - jpeg->slot_data.cfg_stream_vaddr,
>> - jpeg->slot_data.cfg_stream_handle);
>> -
>> - jpeg->slot_data.used = false;
>> -}
>
> Can you split the moving of the code from the changes you do?
> Otherwise the reviewer is forced to get the diff manually.
Sure, this will be done in v3
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian Fricke
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