[PATCH] DMA Engine: fix error path(s) in fsl-dma driver
Li Yang
LeoLi at freescale.com
Tue Jul 1 13:38:23 EST 2008
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Siewior [mailto:bigeasy at linutronix.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:19 AM
> To: Li Yang
> Cc: Zhang Wei; linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org;
> linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] DMA Engine: fix error path(s) in fsl-dma driver
>
> of_fsl_dma_probe:
> - kfree(NULL) doesn't hurt but dereferencing the pointer in
> iounmap does
> - also, the irq can be freed
>
> of_fsl_dma_chan_probe:
> - iounmap(NULL) resolved in vunmap() what which in turn is
> able to handle NULL
> pointer but dereferencing still doesn't work
> - don't clean up not yet allocated ressources, like list_del
> before list_add
>
> fsl_dma_self_test:
> - call fsl_dma_free_chan_resources() if the first dma trans
> didn't complete
Thanks Sebastian,
But similar patch has already been waiting in sub-system maintainer's tree which can be found at
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx.git;a=commit;h=29ec9bdef73d68134e7070ee91ccda0718d46150
- Leo
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