[RFC PATCH V2] Disable Bus Master bit on PCI device shutdown

Khalid Aziz khalid.aziz at hp.com
Thu Apr 26 14:30:42 EDT 2012


Eric suggested I disable bus master bit in PCI susbsystem instead
and that makes perfect sense. So here is take 2 on this patch. Please
review and let me know if I missed anything.


Subject: [PATCH] Disable Bus Master bit on the device in
 pci_device_shutdown() to ensure PCI devices do not continue
 to DMA data after shutdown. This can cause memory
 corruption in case of a kexec where the current kernel
 shuts down and transfers control to a new kernel while a
 PCI device continues to DMA to memory that does not belong
 to it any more in the new kernel.


Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz at hp.com>
---
 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
index 6b54b23..9db5940 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
@@ -420,6 +420,12 @@ static void pci_device_shutdown(struct device *dev)
 	pci_msi_shutdown(pci_dev);
 	pci_msix_shutdown(pci_dev);
 
+	/* 
+	 * Turn off Bus Master bit on the device to tell it to not
+	 * continue to do DMA
+	 */
+	pci_disable_device(pci_dev);
+
 	/*
 	 * Devices may be enabled to wake up by runtime PM, but they need not
 	 * be supposed to wake up the system from its "power off" state (e.g.
-- 
1.7.8.3


-- 
Khalid




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