Skip to contentSkip to conversation

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-test: Add NULL check for DMA channels" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Oct 13, 2025

Subsystems (3)
lore
Share & tools
lore

[email protected]

author maintainer
#0 lore raw

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-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-5.10.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 '2025101342-copartner-greedless-b2d8@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.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
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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
Fixes 8353813c88ef ("PCI: endpoint: Enable DMA tests for endpoints with DMA capabilities")
Fixes 5ebf3fc59bd2 ("PCI: endpoint: functions/pci-epf-test: Add DMA support to transfer data")
[mani: trimmed the stack trace]
drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c +11 -6
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,