Re: [PATCH] device core: fix dma_mask handling in platform_device_register_full

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Mar 11 2020 - 13:18:06 EST


On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:15:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:14:23PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:07:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Ever since the generic platform device code started allocating DMA masks
> > > itself the code to allocate and leak a private DMA mask in
> > > platform_device_register_full has been superflous. More so the fact that
> > > it unconditionally frees the DMA mask allocation in the failure path
> > > can lead to slab corruption if the function fails later on for a device
> > > where it didn't allocate the mask. Just remove the offending code.
> > >
> > > Fixes: cdfee5623290 ("driver core: initialize a default DMA mask for platform device")
> > > Reported-by: Artem S. Tashkinov <aros@xxxxxxx>
> > > Tested-by: Artem S. Tashkinov <aros@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > No s-o-b from you? :(
> >
> > I can take this, or Linus, you can take this now if you want to as well:
>
> Sorry, here it is:
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Is this still needed with the patch that Linus just committed to his
tree?

thanks,

greg k-h