[bug report] coresight: tmc: allocating memory when needed
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Wed Apr 18 05:48:56 PDT 2018
[ This bug is a couple years old now so presumably it can't be that
serious but maybe it's still worth looking at? -dan ]
Hello Mathieu Poirier,
The patch de5461970b3e: "coresight: tmc: allocating memory when
needed" from May 3, 2016, leads to the following static checker
warning:
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c:174 tmc_enable_etr_sink_sysfs()
error: uninitialized symbol 'paddr'.
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c
121 static int tmc_enable_etr_sink_sysfs(struct coresight_device *csdev)
122 {
123 int ret = 0;
124 bool used = false;
125 unsigned long flags;
126 void __iomem *vaddr = NULL;
127 dma_addr_t paddr;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
128 struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata = dev_get_drvdata(csdev->dev.parent);
129
130
131 /*
132 * If we don't have a buffer release the lock and allocate memory.
133 * Otherwise keep the lock and move along.
134 */
135 spin_lock_irqsave(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);
136 if (!drvdata->vaddr) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
137 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);
138
139 /*
140 * Contiguous memory can't be allocated while a spinlock is
141 * held. As such allocate memory here and free it if a buffer
142 * has already been allocated (from a previous session).
143 */
144 vaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(drvdata->dev, drvdata->size,
145 &paddr, GFP_KERNEL);
146 if (!vaddr)
147 return -ENOMEM;
148
149 /* Let's try again */
150 spin_lock_irqsave(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);
151 }
152
153 if (drvdata->reading) {
154 ret = -EBUSY;
155 goto out;
156 }
157
158 /*
159 * In sysFS mode we can have multiple writers per sink. Since this
160 * sink is already enabled no memory is needed and the HW need not be
161 * touched.
162 */
163 if (drvdata->mode == CS_MODE_SYSFS)
164 goto out;
165
166 /*
167 * If drvdata::buf == NULL, use the memory allocated above.
168 * Otherwise a buffer still exists from a previous session, so
169 * simply use that.
170 */
171 if (drvdata->buf == NULL) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Perhaps ->buf is only NULL when ->vaddr is NULL? It's surprising that
we're not testing ->buf in both places.
172 used = true;
173 drvdata->vaddr = vaddr;
174 drvdata->paddr = paddr;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
175 drvdata->buf = drvdata->vaddr;
176 }
177
178 drvdata->mode = CS_MODE_SYSFS;
regards,
dan carpenter
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