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| author | Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> | 2022-03-05 18:07:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-03-07 11:26:02 -0800 |
| commit | aa6f8dcbab473f3a3c7454b74caa46d36cdc5d13 (patch) | |
| tree | f4ff6004c13374d66d37db7221e120f8d409799c /Documentation | |
| parent | ffb217a13a2eaf6d5bd974fc83036a53ca69f1e2 (diff) | |
swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE"
Unfortunately, we ended up merging an old version of the patch "fix info
leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE" instead of merging the latest one. Christoph
(the swiotlb maintainer), he asked me to create an incremental fix
(after I have pointed this out the mix up, and asked him for guidance).
So here we go.
The main differences between what we got and what was agreed are:
* swiotlb_sync_single_for_device is also required to do an extra bounce
* We decided not to introduce DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE until we have exploiters
* The implantation of DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE is flawed: DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE
must take precedence over DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC
Thus this patch removes DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE, and makes
swiotlb_sync_single_for_device() bounce unconditionally (that is, also
when dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE) in order do avoid synchronising back stale
data from the swiotlb buffer.
Let me note, that if the size used with dma_sync_* API is less than the
size used with dma_[un]map_*, under certain circumstances we may still
end up with swiotlb not being transparent. In that sense, this is no
perfect fix either.
To get this bullet proof, we would have to bounce the entire
mapping/bounce buffer. For that we would have to figure out the starting
address, and the size of the mapping in
swiotlb_sync_single_for_device(). While this does seem possible, there
seems to be no firm consensus on how things are supposed to work.
Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: ddbd89deb7d3 ("swiotlb: fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 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. |