From: Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
"T . J . Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>,
Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>,
<iommu@lists.linux.dev>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] dma: contiguous: Check return value of dma_contiguous_reserve_area()
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:13:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260129181317.2429196-1-sdonthineni@nvidia.com> (raw)
Commit 8f1fc1bf1a3d ("dma: contiguous: Reserve default CMA heap")
introduced a bug where dma_heap_cma_register_heap() is called with
a NULL pointer when dma_contiguous_reserve_area() fails to reserve
the CMA area.
When dma_contiguous_reserve_area() fails, dma_contiguous_default_area
remains NULL (initialized as a global variable), but the code doesn't
check the return value and proceeds to call dma_heap_cma_register_heap()
with this NULL pointer.
Later during boot, add_cma_heaps() iterates through the dma_areas[]
array and attempts to register heaps. When it encounters the NULL
pointer stored by the earlier call, it crashes in __add_cma_heap()
-> dma_heap_add() when trying to dereference the NULL CMA pointer.
The crash manifests as:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000000000038
...
Call trace:
dma_heap_add+0x40/0x2b0
__add_cma_heap+0x80/0xe0
add_cma_heaps+0x64/0xb0
do_one_initcall+0x60/0x318
kernel_init_freeable+0x260/0x2f0
kernel_init+0x2c/0x168
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Fix this by checking the return value of dma_contiguous_reserve_area()
and only calling dma_heap_cma_register_heap() when the reservation
succeeds.
Fixes: 8f1fc1bf1a3d ("dma: contiguous: Reserve default CMA heap")
Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>
---
kernel/dma/contiguous.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
index d8fd6f779f797..92c539d76412b 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
@@ -247,10 +247,12 @@ void __init dma_contiguous_reserve(phys_addr_t limit)
pr_debug("%s: reserving %ld MiB for global area\n", __func__,
(unsigned long)selected_size / SZ_1M);
- dma_contiguous_reserve_area(selected_size, selected_base,
- selected_limit,
- &dma_contiguous_default_area,
- fixed);
+ ret = dma_contiguous_reserve_area(selected_size, selected_base,
+ selected_limit,
+ &dma_contiguous_default_area,
+ fixed);
+ if (ret)
+ return;
ret = dma_heap_cma_register_heap(dma_contiguous_default_area);
if (ret)
--
2.43.0
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2026-01-29 18:13 ` Shanker Donthineni [this message]
2026-01-29 18:43 ` T.J. Mercier
2026-02-02 15:52 ` Marek Szyprowski
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