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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 12 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst index 17706dc91ec9..1887d92e8e92 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst @@ -130,11 +130,3 @@ accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged subsystem that the buffer is fully accessible at the elevated privilege level (and ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at the lesser-privileged levels). - -DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE ------------------- - -This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected to -overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any of the -previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows bounce-buffering -implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers. diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h index 6150d11a607e..dca2b1355bb1 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h @@ -62,14 +62,6 @@ #define DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED (1UL << 9) /* - * This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected - * to overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any - * of the previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows - * bounce-buffering implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers. - */ -#define DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE (1UL << 10) - -/* * A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA or bus address for the platform. It can * be given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. It is specific to a * given device and there may be a translation between the CPU physical address diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c index bfc56cb21705..6c350555e5a1 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c @@ -627,10 +627,14 @@ phys_addr_t swiotlb_tbl_map_single(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t orig_addr, for (i = 0; i < nr_slots(alloc_size + offset); i++) mem->slots[index + i].orig_addr = slot_addr(orig_addr, i); tlb_addr = slot_addr(mem->start, index) + offset; - if (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC) && - (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE) || dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || - dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)) - swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); + /* + * When dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE we could omit the copy from the orig + * to the tlb buffer, if we knew for sure the device will + * overwirte the entire current content. But we don't. Thus + * unconditional bounce may prevent leaking swiotlb content (i.e. + * kernel memory) to user-space. + */ + swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); return tlb_addr; } |