dmaengine: device must have at least one channel
authorViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:32:58 +0000 (14:32 -0700)
committerVinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 06:19:07 +0000 (11:49 +0530)
commit76d7b84bfa43f514544477d2282f9ac9796a2594
tree803845c97d7bf21a7ad0864e873687d60494b835
parent29b4817d4018df78086157ea3a55c1d9424a7cfc
dmaengine: device must have at least one channel

The DMA device can't be registered if it doesn't have any channels
registered at all. Moreover, it leads to memory leak and is reported by
kmemleak as (on 3.10 kernel, and same shall happen on mainline):

unreferenced object 0xffffffc09e597240 (size 64):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294877736 (age 7060.280s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 c0 ff ff ff 30 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff  ........0.......
    00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffc0003079ec>] create_object+0x148/0x2a0
    [<ffffffc000cc150c>] kmemleak_alloc+0x80/0xbc
    [<ffffffc000303a7c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x120/0x1ac
    [<ffffffc00054771c>] dma_async_device_register+0x160/0x46c
    [<ffffffc000548958>] foo_probe+0x1a0/0x264
    [<ffffffc0005d6658>] platform_drv_probe+0x14/0x20
    [<ffffffc0005d50cc>] driver_probe_device+0x160/0x374
    [<ffffffc0005d538c>] __driver_attach+0x60/0x90
    [<ffffffc0005d3e78>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xb0
    [<ffffffc0005d4a0c>] driver_attach+0x1c/0x28
    [<ffffffc0005d459c>] bus_add_driver+0x124/0x248
    [<ffffffc0005d59cc>] driver_register+0x90/0x110
    [<ffffffc0005d6bf4>] platform_driver_register+0x58/0x64
    [<ffffffc00142a70c>] foo_driver_init+0x10/0x1c
    [<ffffffc000200878>] do_one_initcall+0xac/0x148
    [<ffffffc00140096c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a0/0x258

Return -ENODEV from dma_async_device_register() on such a case.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
drivers/dma/dmaengine.c