Re: [PATCH v1] dmaengine: ti: Add NULL check in udma_probe()

From: Nathan Lynch
Date: Thu Apr 17 2025 - 17:52:08 EST


Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently,
> udma_probe() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL
> pointer dereference.

Yes, it does look like this would happen when uc->name is eventually
passed to dma_pool_create(), at least.

>
> Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue.
>
> Fixes: 25dcb5dd7b7c ("dmaengine: ti: New driver for K3 UDMA")
> Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> index 7ed1956b4642..f1c2f8170730 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> @@ -5582,7 +5582,8 @@ static int udma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> uc->config.dir = DMA_MEM_TO_MEM;
> uc->name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%s chan%d",
> dev_name(dev), i);
> -
> + if (!uc->name)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> vchan_init(&uc->vc, &ud->ddev);
> /* Use custom vchan completion handling */
> tasklet_setup(&uc->vc.task, udma_vchan_complete);

Returning -ENOMEM directly seems fine, even though this is in a loop
200+ lines into udma_probe(). I don't see any unmanaged device resources
that need to be released before returning, and if I missed one, all the
error paths this code precedes would have the same problem.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan.lynch@xxxxxxx>