Re: [PATCH V1] accel/amdxdna: Return ERR_PTR on dma_alloc_noncoherent failure

[Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>]

Applied to drm-misc-next

On 3/23/26 10:56, Mario Limonciello (AMD) (kernel.org) wrote:
>
>
> On 3/23/2026 12:37 PM, Lizhi Hou wrote:
>> From: Wendy Liang <wendy.liang@amd.com>
>>
>> dma_alloc_noncoherent() returns NULL on failure, but callers of
>> aie2_alloc_msg_buffer() check for IS_ERR(). Return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)
>> instead of NULL to match the amdxdna_iommu_alloc() path and the
>> caller's error checking convention.
>>
>> Fixes: ece3e8980907 ("accel/amdxdna: Allow forcing IOVA-based DMA via 
>> module parameter")
>> Signed-off-by: Wendy Liang <wendy.liang@amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c | 7 ++++++-
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c 
>> b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
>> index 7e219a5eda56..a1c546c3e81c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
>> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ void *aie2_alloc_msg_buffer(struct amdxdna_dev_hdl 
>> *ndev, u32 *size,
>>                   dma_addr_t *dma_addr)
>>   {
>>       struct amdxdna_dev *xdna = ndev->xdna;
>> +    void *vaddr;
>>       int order;
>>         *size = max(*size, SZ_8K);
>> @@ -67,8 +68,12 @@ void *aie2_alloc_msg_buffer(struct amdxdna_dev_hdl 
>> *ndev, u32 *size,
>>       if (amdxdna_iova_on(xdna))
>>           return amdxdna_iommu_alloc(xdna, *size, dma_addr);
>>   -    return dma_alloc_noncoherent(xdna->ddev.dev, *size, dma_addr,
>> +    vaddr = dma_alloc_noncoherent(xdna->ddev.dev, *size, dma_addr,
>>                         DMA_FROM_DEVICE, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +    if (!vaddr)
>> +        return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>> +
>> +    return vaddr;
>>   }
>>     void aie2_free_msg_buffer(struct amdxdna_dev_hdl *ndev, size_t size,
> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>