Commit 900730dc4705 ("wifi: ath: Use of_reserved_mem_region_to_resource() for "memory-region"") uncovered a massive problem with the usage of resource_size() helper.
The reported commit caused a regression with ath11k WiFi firmware loading and the change was just a simple replacement of duplicate code with a new helper of_reserved_mem_region_to_resource().
On reworking this, in the commit also a check for the presence of the node was replaced with resource_size(&res). This was done following the logic that if the node wasn't present then it's expected that also the resource_size is zero, mimicking the same if-else logic.
This was also the reason the regression was mostly hard to catch at first sight as the rework is correctly done given the assumption on the used helpers.
BUT this is actually not the case. On further inspection on resource_size() it was found that it NEVER actually returns 0.
Even if the resource value of start and end are 0, the return value of resource_size() will ALWAYS be 1, resulting in the broken if-else condition ALWAYS going in the first if condition.
This was simply confirmed by reading the resource_size() logic:
return res->end - res->start + 1;
Given the confusion, also other case of such usage were searched in the kernel and with great suprise it seems LOTS of place assume resource_size() should return zero in the context of the resource start and end set to 0.
Quoting for example comments in drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c:
/* * The PCI core shouldn't set up a resource with a * type but zero size. But there may be bugs that * cause us to do that. */ if (!resource_size(res)) goto no_mmap;
It really seems resource_size() was tought with the assumption that resource struct was always correctly initialized before calling it and never set to zero.
But across the year this got lost and now there are lots of driver that assume resource_size() returns 0 if start and end are also 0.
To better handle this and make resource_size() returns correct value in such case, add a simple check and return 0 if both resource start and resource end are zero.
Cc: Rob Herring (Arm) robh@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 1a4e564b7db9 ("resource: add resource_size()") Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi ansuelsmth@gmail.com --- include/linux/ioport.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h index 9afa30f9346f..1b8ce62255db 100644 --- a/include/linux/ioport.h +++ b/include/linux/ioport.h @@ -288,6 +288,9 @@ static inline void resource_set_range(struct resource *res,
static inline resource_size_t resource_size(const struct resource *res) { + if (!res->start && !res->end) + return 0; + return res->end - res->start + 1; } static inline unsigned long resource_type(const struct resource *res)