Re: [PATCH] media: rkvdec: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug in probe()

From: Nicolas Dufresne
Date: Mon Aug 11 2025 - 10:20:55 EST


Hi Dan,

Le mercredi 25 juin 2025 à 10:23 -0500, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
> The iommu_paging_domain_alloc() function doesn't return NULL on error it
> returns error pointers.  Update the check and then set ->empty_domain to
> NULL because the rest of the driver assumes it can be NULL.
>
> Fixes: ff8c5622f9f7 ("media: rkvdec: Restore iommu addresses on errors")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec.c | 4 +++-

I've re-applied to the now de-staged driver, and will send that as fixes for
6.17.

thanks,
Nicolas

>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec.c
> b/drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec.c
> index d707088ec0dc..1b7f27e4d961 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec.c
> @@ -1162,8 +1162,10 @@ static int rkvdec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   if (iommu_get_domain_for_dev(&pdev->dev)) {
>   rkvdec->empty_domain = iommu_paging_domain_alloc(rkvdec-
> >dev);
>  
> - if (!rkvdec->empty_domain)
> + if (IS_ERR(rkvdec->empty_domain)) {
> + rkvdec->empty_domain = NULL;
>   dev_warn(rkvdec->dev, "cannot alloc new empty
> domain\n");
> + }
>   }
>  
>   vb2_dma_contig_set_max_seg_size(&pdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));

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