Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: ti: Fix a potential under memory allocation issue in edma_setup_from_hw()

From: Péter Ujfalusi
Date: Sat May 28 2022 - 05:32:39 EST




On 21/05/2022 20:26, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> If the 'queue_priority_mapping' is not provided, we need to allocate the
> correct amount of memory. Each entry takes 2 s8, so actually less memory
> than needed is allocated.
>
> Update the size of each entry when the memory is devm_kcalloc'ed.
>
> Fixes: 6d10c3950bf4 ("ARM: edma: Get IP configuration from HW (number of channels, tc, etc)")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Note that the devm_kcalloc() in edma_xbar_event_map() looks also spurious.
> However, this looks fine to me because of the 'nelm >>= 1;' before the
> 'for' loop.

This has been deprecated ever since we have moved to dma router to
handle the xbar for various TI platforms, but by the looks it kida looks
bogus in a same way.

> ---
> drivers/dma/ti/edma.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ti/edma.c b/drivers/dma/ti/edma.c
> index 3ea8ef7f57df..f313e2cf542c 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/ti/edma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/ti/edma.c
> @@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ static int edma_setup_from_hw(struct device *dev, struct edma_soc_info *pdata,
> * priority. So Q0 is the highest priority queue and the last queue has
> * the lowest priority.
> */
> - queue_priority_map = devm_kcalloc(dev, ecc->num_tc + 1, sizeof(s8),
> + queue_priority_map = devm_kcalloc(dev, ecc->num_tc + 1, sizeof(s8) * 2,
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!queue_priority_map)
> return -ENOMEM;

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Péter