[PATCH v2] ARM: DMA: Fix kzalloc flags in __dma_alloc

Alexandre Courbot acourbot at nvidia.com
Fri Mar 18 02:28:49 PDT 2016


Commit 19e6e5e5392b ("ARM: 8547/1: dma-mapping: store buffer
information") allocates a structure meant for internal buffer management
with the GFP flags of the buffer itself. This can trigger the following
safeguard in the slab/slub allocator:

	if (unlikely(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK)) {
		pr_emerg("gfp: %u\n", flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK);
		BUG();
	}

Fix this by filtering the flags that make the slab allocator unhappy.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
---
Changes since v1:
- Filter flags that may cause problem instead of forcing GFP_KERNEL
  (and risk sleeping in atomic context), as suggested by Rabin.

 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index deac58d5f1f7..c941e93048ad 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -762,7 +762,8 @@ static void *__dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle,
 	if (!mask)
 		return NULL;
 
-	buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), gfp);
+	buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf),
+		      gfp & ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_DMA32 | __GFP_HIGHMEM));
 	if (!buf)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.7.3




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