FAILED: patch "[PATCH] PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-test: Add NULL check for DMA channels" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 85afa9ea122dd9d4a2ead104a951d318975dcd25
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025101340-marbled-uneven-a896@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 85afa9ea122dd9d4a2ead104a951d318975dcd25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:57:56 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-test: Add NULL check for DMA channels
before release
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The fields dma_chan_tx and dma_chan_rx of the struct pci_epf_test can be NULL even after EPF initialization. Then it is prudent to check that they have non-NULL values before releasing the channels. Add the checks in pci_epf_test_clean_dma_chan().

Without the checks, NULL pointer dereferences happen and they can lead to a kernel panic in some cases:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000050
  Call trace:
   dma_release_channel+0x2c/0x120 (P)
   pci_epf_test_epc_deinit+0x94/0xc0 [pci_epf_test]
   pci_epc_deinit_notify+0x74/0xc0
   tegra_pcie_ep_pex_rst_irq+0x250/0x5d8
   irq_thread_fn+0x34/0xb8
   irq_thread+0x18c/0x2e8
   kthread+0x14c/0x210
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

index 09e1b8b46b55..31617772ad51 100644
@@ -301,15 +301,20 @@ static void pci_epf_test_clean_dma_chan(struct pci_epf_test *epf_test)
 	if (!epf_test->dma_supported)
 		return;
 
-	dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_tx);
-	if (epf_test->dma_chan_tx == epf_test->dma_chan_rx) {
+	if (epf_test->dma_chan_tx) {
+		dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_tx);
+		if (epf_test->dma_chan_tx == epf_test->dma_chan_rx) {
+			epf_test->dma_chan_tx = NULL;
+			epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
+			return;
+		}
 		epf_test->dma_chan_tx = NULL;
-		epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
-		return;
 	}
 
-	dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_rx);
-	epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
+	if (epf_test->dma_chan_rx) {
+		dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_rx);
+		epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
+	}
 }
 
 static void pci_epf_test_print_rate(struct pci_epf_test *epf_test,

From: Wang Jiang <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 9b80bdb10aee04ce7289896e6bdad13e33972636 ]

Remove a surplus return statement from the void function that has been added in the commit commit 8353813c88ef ("PCI: endpoint: Enable DMA tests for endpoints with DMA capabilities").

Especially, as an empty return statements at the end of a void functions serve little purpose.

This fixes the following checkpatch.pl script warning:

WARNING: void function return statements are not generally useful #296: FILE: drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c:296:
+ return;
+}

Stable-dep-of: 85afa9ea122d ("PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-test: Add NULL check for DMA channels before release")

---
 drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

index 21aa3709e2577..0a7646a8b104f 100644
@@ -291,8 +291,6 @@ static void pci_epf_test_clean_dma_chan(struct pci_epf_test *epf_test)
 
 	dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_rx);
 	epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
-
-	return;
 }
 
 static void pci_epf_test_print_rate(struct pci_epf_test *epf_test,

2.51.0

From: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 85afa9ea122dd9d4a2ead104a951d318975dcd25 ]

The fields dma_chan_tx and dma_chan_rx of the struct pci_epf_test can be NULL even after EPF initialization. Then it is prudent to check that they have non-NULL values before releasing the channels. Add the checks in pci_epf_test_clean_dma_chan().

Without the checks, NULL pointer dereferences happen and they can lead to a kernel panic in some cases:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000050
  Call trace:
   dma_release_channel+0x2c/0x120 (P)
   pci_epf_test_epc_deinit+0x94/0xc0 [pci_epf_test]
   pci_epc_deinit_notify+0x74/0xc0
   tegra_pcie_ep_pex_rst_irq+0x250/0x5d8
   irq_thread_fn+0x34/0xb8
   irq_thread+0x18c/0x2e8
   kthread+0x14c/0x210
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

---
 drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

index 0a7646a8b104f..eeb7fbc2d67a5 100644
@@ -282,15 +282,20 @@ static void pci_epf_test_clean_dma_chan(struct pci_epf_test *epf_test)
 	if (!epf_test->dma_supported)
 		return;
 
-	dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_tx);
-	if (epf_test->dma_chan_tx == epf_test->dma_chan_rx) {
+	if (epf_test->dma_chan_tx) {
+		dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_tx);
+		if (epf_test->dma_chan_tx == epf_test->dma_chan_rx) {
+			epf_test->dma_chan_tx = NULL;
+			epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
+			return;
+		}
 		epf_test->dma_chan_tx = NULL;
-		epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
-		return;
 	}
 
-	dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_rx);
-	epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
+	if (epf_test->dma_chan_rx) {
+		dma_release_channel(epf_test->dma_chan_rx);
+		epf_test->dma_chan_rx = NULL;
+	}
 }
 
 static void pci_epf_test_print_rate(struct pci_epf_test *epf_test,

2.51.0