Yes, thank you for your advice. The new patch's been sent.

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:44 AM, Joerg Roedel <j...@8bytes.org> wrote:

> Hi Yizhuo Zhai,
>
> thanks for your patch, but I think there is a better way to fix that.
> Please see below.
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:02:54PM -0700, Yizhuo Zhai wrote:
> > Variable "unmap_size" is supposed to be initialized in function
> fetch_pte.
> > However, it's uninitialized if fetch_pte returns NULL. And "unmap_size"
> is used
> > outside the return check.
> >
> > From 377ccb647d3c6c6747f20a242b035bafc775c3be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >
> > Signed-off-by: From: "yzhai...@ucr.edu" <yzhai...@ucr.edu>
> > ---
> >  drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
> > index 8fb8c73..774e057 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
> > @@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ static unsigned long iommu_unmap_page(struct
> > protection_domain *dom,
> >        unsigned long page_size)
> >  {
> >   unsigned long long unmapped;
> > - unsigned long unmap_size;
> > + unsigned long unmap_size = 0;
>
> That is not sufficient because fetch_pte is called in a loop, and when
> it returns NULL then unmap_size keeps the value of the previous
> invocation.
>
> So from looking at the code, it is better to set page_size=0 in
> fetch_pte at the very beginning, before the function can return NULL.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Joerg
>
>


-- 
Kind Regards,

*Yizhuo Zhai*

*Computer Science, Graduate Student*
*University of California, Riverside *
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