[PATCH] ARM: v7r: fix TLSF memory pool mix-up
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Tue Apr 29 06:50:32 PDT 2025
dma_alloc_coherent allocates memory from a special memory region backing
the dma_coherent_pool. When freeing said memory, this needs to be done
with the same pool as argument, but free uses the normal pool used for
all other allocations instead. Failure to do so will trigger memory
corruption during free block merging.
This likely went unnoticed so far, because most drivers allocate
coherent memory only once in the probe path and only disable DMA.
The coherent memory is then only leaked for the short time between
barebox shutdown and Linux reclaiming all memory anyway.
This change is untested.
Fixes: 20a8958e0a67 ("ARM: add ARMv7R MPU support")
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
arch/arm/cpu/armv7r-mpu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7r-mpu.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7r-mpu.c
index e2108ef7235e..1de9e39cc5f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7r-mpu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7r-mpu.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ void *dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle
void dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev,
void *mem, dma_addr_t dma_handle, size_t size)
{
- free(mem);
+ tlsf_free(dma_coherent_pool, mem);
}
void arch_sync_dma_for_cpu(void *vaddr, size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir)
--
2.39.5
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