To keep consistent with kfree, which tolerate ptr is NULL. We do this
because sometimes we may use goto statement, so that success and failure
case can share parts of the code. But unfortunately, dma_free_coherent
called with parameter cpu_addr is null will cause oops, such as showed
below:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc020d3b2b8
pgd = ffffffc083a61000
[ffffffc020d3b2b8] *pgd=0000000000000000, *pud=0000000000000000
CPU: 4 PID: 1489 Comm: malloc_dma_1 Tainted: G O 4.1.12 #1
Hardware name: ARM64 (DT)
PC is at __dma_free_coherent.isra.10+0x74/0xc8
LR is at __dma_free+0x9c/0xb0
Process malloc_dma_1 (pid: 1489, stack limit = 0xffffffc0837fc020)
[...]
Call trace:
__dma_free_coherent.isra.10+0x74/0xc8
__dma_free+0x9c/0xb0
malloc_dma+0x104/0x158 [dma_alloc_coherent_mtmalloc]
kthread+0xec/0xfc
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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