Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: atmel: fix resource leak on DMA buffer allocation failure
From: Claudiu Beznea
Date: Sat May 16 2026 - 12:05:39 EST
Hi, Felix,
On 5/15/26 20:20, Felix Gu wrote:
The original code set use_dma to false when dma_alloc_coherent() fails,You could use dmam_alloc_coherent() and avoid bulking the failure path.
so DMA channels allocated earlier were never freed, causing a resource
leak.
Fix by moving the bounce buffer allocation into
atmel_spi_configure_dma() and extending atmel_spi_release_dma() to
also free the bounce buffers. Any allocation failure in the DMA
configuration path now rolls back both channels and buffers through
the same release function.
Fixes: a9889ed62d06 ("spi: atmel: Implements transfers with bounce buffer")
Signed-off-by: Felix Gu<ustc.gu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c b/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c
index 25aa294631c8..e519a86a2b45 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c
@@ -559,6 +559,34 @@ static int atmel_spi_dma_slave_config(struct atmel_spi *as, u8 bits_per_word)
return err;
}
+static void atmel_spi_release_dma(struct spi_controller *host,
+ struct atmel_spi *as)
+{
+ if (host->dma_rx) {
+ dma_release_channel(host->dma_rx);
+ host->dma_rx = NULL;
+ }
+ if (host->dma_tx) {
+ dma_release_channel(host->dma_tx);
+ host->dma_tx = NULL;
+ }
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SOC_SAM_V4_V5)) {
+ if (as->addr_tx_bbuf) {
+ dma_free_coherent(&as->pdev->dev, SPI_MAX_DMA_XFER,
+ as->addr_tx_bbuf,
+ as->dma_addr_tx_bbuf);
+ as->addr_tx_bbuf = NULL;
+ }
+ if (as->addr_rx_bbuf) {
+ dma_free_coherent(&as->pdev->dev, SPI_MAX_DMA_XFER,
+ as->addr_rx_bbuf,
+ as->dma_addr_rx_bbuf);
+ as->addr_rx_bbuf = NULL;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
static int atmel_spi_configure_dma(struct spi_controller *host,
struct atmel_spi *as)
{
@@ -569,7 +597,8 @@ static int atmel_spi_configure_dma(struct spi_controller *host,
if (IS_ERR(host->dma_tx)) {
err = PTR_ERR(host->dma_tx);
dev_dbg(dev, "No TX DMA channel, DMA is disabled\n");
- goto error_clear;
+ host->dma_tx = NULL;
+ return err;
}
host->dma_rx = dma_request_chan(dev, "rx");
@@ -580,12 +609,31 @@ static int atmel_spi_configure_dma(struct spi_controller *host,
* requested tx channel.
*/
dev_dbg(dev, "No RX DMA channel, DMA is disabled\n");
- goto error;
+ host->dma_rx = NULL;
+ goto err_release_dma;
}
err = atmel_spi_dma_slave_config(as, 8);
if (err)
- goto error;
+ goto err_release_dma;
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SOC_SAM_V4_V5)) {
+ as->addr_tx_bbuf = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, SPI_MAX_DMA_XFER,
+ &as->dma_addr_tx_bbuf,
+ GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
Thank you,
Claudiu