[Nouveau] [PATCH] nouveau/u_memcpya: fix NULL vs error pointer bug

Lyude Paul lyude at redhat.com
Mon Sep 18 22:24:56 UTC 2023


Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>

I assume you need me to push this to drm-misc?

On Fri, 2023-09-15 at 15:59 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The u_memcpya() function is supposed to return error pointers on
> error.  Returning NULL will lead to an Oops.
> 
> Fixes: 68132cc6d1bc ("nouveau/u_memcpya: use vmemdup_user")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
> index 3666a7403e47..52a708a98915 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
> @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ u_memcpya(uint64_t user, unsigned int nmemb, unsigned int size)
>  	size_t bytes;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(nmemb, size, &bytes)))
> -		return NULL;
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  	return vmemdup_user(userptr, bytes);
>  }
>  

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat



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