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Commit 285f2a08 authored by Alison Schofield's avatar Alison Schofield Committed by Dave Jiang
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cxl/region: Avoid null pointer dereference in region lookup



cxl_dpa_to_region() looks up a region based on a memdev and DPA.
It wrongly assumes an endpoint found mapping the DPA is also of
a fully assembled region. When not true it leads to a null pointer
dereference looking up the region name.

This appears during testing of region lookup after a failure to
assemble a BIOS defined region or if the lookup raced with the
assembly of the BIOS defined region.

Failure to clean up BIOS defined regions that fail assembly is an
issue in itself and a fix to that problem will alleviate some of
the impact. It will not alleviate the race condition so let's harden
this path.

The behavior change is that the kernel oops due to a null pointer
dereference is replaced with a dev_dbg() message noting that an
endpoint was mapped.

Additional comments are added so that future users of this function
can more clearly understand what it provides.

Fixes: 0a105ab2 ("cxl/memdev: Warn of poison inject or clear to a mapped region")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240604003609.202682-1-alison.schofield@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
parent 84ec9859
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