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Message-ID: <b9c33092-6268-ef89-4401-0cf438ee8a4a@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:12:37 +0100
From: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
To: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>, <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
<anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
<kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <richardcochran@...il.com>,
<jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, <karol.kolacinski@...el.com>
CC: <michal.michalik@...el.com>, <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kunwu Chan
<kunwu.chan@...mail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in
ice_ptp.c
On 12/11/23 10:32, Kunwu Chan wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> I made the patch based on linux-next.git(tag:next-20231211).
>
> Our code is just self-similar, i didn't override the old name.
> I keep the logic as it was before.
> The newest code is:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c#n2747
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c#n2993
>
sure, I just checked those, no huge benefit of dedup
> I'll update v2 patch with:
> 1. update suject prefix to "[PATCH v2 iwl-next]"
> 2. remove 'dev_err'
>
>
> Thanks again,
> Kunwu
Thank you too
>
> On 2023/12/11 15:15, Przemek Kitszel wrote:
>> On 12/11/23 07:26, Kunwu Chan wrote:
>>> devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory
>>> which can be NULL upon failure.
>>>
>>> Fixes: d938a8cca88a ("ice: Auxbus devices & driver for E822 TS")
>>> Cc: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@...mail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>
>>
>> I would suggest adding "iwl-net" as a target here
>>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c | 6 ++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
>>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
>>> index 1eddcbe89b0c..59794ce4f243 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
>>> @@ -2668,6 +2668,8 @@ static int
>>> ice_ptp_register_auxbus_driver(struct ice_pf *pf)
>>> name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "ptp_aux_dev_%u_%u_clk%u",
>>> pf->pdev->bus->number, PCI_SLOT(pf->pdev->devfn),
>>> ice_get_ptp_src_clock_index(&pf->hw));
>>> + if (!name)
>>> + return -ENOMEM;
>>> aux_driver->name = name;
>>> aux_driver->shutdown = ice_ptp_auxbus_shutdown;
>>> @@ -2929,6 +2931,10 @@ static int ice_ptp_create_auxbus_device(struct
>>> ice_pf *pf)
>>> name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "ptp_aux_dev_%u_%u_clk%u",
>>> pf->pdev->bus->number, PCI_SLOT(pf->pdev->devfn),
>>> ice_get_ptp_src_clock_index(&pf->hw));
>>> + if (!name) {
>>> + dev_err(dev, "Failed to allocate memory\n");
>>
>> Kuba @ [1]:
>> no warnings on allocation failures, there will be a splat for GFP_KERNEL
>> (checkpatch should catch this)
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231206195304.6226771d@kernel.org/T/
>>
>> so just "return -ENOMEM" would be sufficient
>>
>>> + return -ENOMEM;
>>> + }
>>> aux_dev->name = name;
>>> aux_dev->id = id;
>>
>> I didn't checked but having same code in two places raises questions.
>> Are you overwriting old name here, or our code is just self similar?
>
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