Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 5 authors, 2021-04-12

Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] devres: handle zero size in devm_kmalloc()

From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Date: 2020-07-10 13:46:33
Also in: linux-hwmon, lkml

Hi Bartosz,

On 29/06/2020 07:50, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>

Make devm_kmalloc() behave similarly to non-managed kmalloc(): return
ZERO_SIZE_PTR when requested size is 0. Update devm_kfree() to handle
this case.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>
---
 drivers/base/devres.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index 1df1fb10b2d9..ed615d3b9cf1 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -819,6 +819,9 @@ void *devm_kmalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	struct devres *dr;
 
+	if (unlikely(!size))
+		return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
+
 	/* use raw alloc_dr for kmalloc caller tracing */
 	dr = alloc_dr(devm_kmalloc_release, size, gfp, dev_to_node(dev));
 	if (unlikely(!dr))
@@ -950,10 +953,10 @@ void devm_kfree(struct device *dev, const void *p)
 	int rc;
 
 	/*
-	 * Special case: pointer to a string in .rodata returned by
-	 * devm_kstrdup_const().
+	 * Special cases: pointer to a string in .rodata returned by
+	 * devm_kstrdup_const() or NULL/ZERO ptr.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)p)))
+	if (unlikely(is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)p) || ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(p)))
 		return;
 
 	rc = devres_destroy(dev, devm_kmalloc_release,

This change caught a bug in one of our Tegra drivers, which I am in the
process of fixing. Once I bisected to this commit it was easy to track
down, but I am wondering if there is any reason why we don't add a
WARN_ON() if size is 0 in devm_kmalloc? It was essentially what I ended
up doing to find the bug.

Jon

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