On Sat Jun 28 08:25:36 2025 +0300, Abdelrahman Fekry wrote:
> The HMM_BO_DEVICE_INITED flag was being set in hmm_bo_device_init()
> before key initialization steps like kmem_cache_create(),
> kmem_cache_alloc(), and __bo_init().
>
> This means that if any of these steps fail, the flag remains set,
> misleading other parts of the driver (e.g. hmm_bo_alloc())
> into thinking the device is initialized. This could lead
> to undefined behavior or invalid memory use.
>
> Additionally, since __bo_init() is called from inside
> hmm_bo_device_init() after the flag was already set, its internal
> check for HMM_BO_DEVICE_INITED is redundant.
>
> - Move the flag assignment to the end after all allocations succeed.
> - Remove redundant check of the flag inside __bo_init()
>
> See the link [1] below for a backtrace which happens when deliberately
> triggering the problem of the flag getting set too early.
>
> Link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAGn2d8ONZpOHXex8kjeUDgRPiMqKp8vZ=xhgbedgphv1t7z...@mail.gmail.com/
> [1]
> Signed-off-by: Abdelrahman Fekry <[email protected]>
> Link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Patch committed.
Thanks,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/hmm/hmm_bo.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/hmm/hmm_bo.c
b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/hmm/hmm_bo.c
index 224ca8d42721..5d0cd5260d3a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/hmm/hmm_bo.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/hmm/hmm_bo.c
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ static int __bo_init(struct hmm_bo_device *bdev, struct
hmm_buffer_object *bo,
unsigned int pgnr)
{
check_bodev_null_return(bdev, -EINVAL);
- var_equal_return(hmm_bo_device_inited(bdev), 0, -EINVAL,
- "hmm_bo_device not inited yet.\n");
/* prevent zero size buffer object */
if (pgnr == 0) {
dev_err(atomisp_dev, "0 size buffer is not allowed.\n");
@@ -341,7 +339,6 @@ int hmm_bo_device_init(struct hmm_bo_device *bdev,
spin_lock_init(&bdev->list_lock);
mutex_init(&bdev->rbtree_mutex);
- bdev->flag = HMM_BO_DEVICE_INITED;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdev->entire_bo_list);
bdev->allocated_rbtree = RB_ROOT;
@@ -376,6 +373,8 @@ int hmm_bo_device_init(struct hmm_bo_device *bdev,
__bo_insert_to_free_rbtree(&bdev->free_rbtree, bo);
+ bdev->flag = HMM_BO_DEVICE_INITED;
+
return 0;
}
