[PATCH v2] i2c: at91: use dma safe buffers

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Thu May 5 08:11:30 PDT 2022


[+ Wolfram]

Am 2022-05-05 16:51, schrieb Nathan Chancellor:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 05:08:28PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
>> The supplied buffer might be on the stack and we get the following 
>> error
>> message:
>> [    3.312058] at91_i2c e0070600.i2c: rejecting DMA map of vmalloc 
>> memory
>> 
>> Use i2c_{get,put}_dma_safe_msg_buf() to get a DMA-able memory region 
>> if
>> necessary.
>> 
>> Fixes: 60937b2cdbf9 ("i2c: at91: add dma support")
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
>> Reviewed-by: Codrin Ciubotariu <codrin.ciubotariu at microchip.com>
>> ---
>> changes since v1:
>>  - remove extra empty line
>>  - add fixes tag as suggested by Codrin
>> 
>>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c 
>> b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c
>> index b0eae94909f4..5eca3b3bb609 100644
>> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c
>> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c
>> @@ -656,6 +656,7 @@ static int at91_twi_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, 
>> struct i2c_msg *msg, int num)
>>  	unsigned int_addr_flag = 0;
>>  	struct i2c_msg *m_start = msg;
>>  	bool is_read;
>> +	u8 *dma_buf;
>> 
>>  	dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "at91_xfer: processing %d messages:\n", num);
>> 
>> @@ -703,7 +704,17 @@ static int at91_twi_xfer(struct i2c_adapter 
>> *adap, struct i2c_msg *msg, int num)
>>  	dev->msg = m_start;
>>  	dev->recv_len_abort = false;
>> 
>> +	if (dev->use_dma) {
>> +		dma_buf = i2c_get_dma_safe_msg_buf(m_start, 1);
>> +		if (!dma_buf) {
>> +			ret = -ENOMEM;
>> +			goto out;
>> +		}
>> +		dev->buf = dma_buf;
>> +	}
>> +
>>  	ret = at91_do_twi_transfer(dev);
>> +	i2c_put_dma_safe_msg_buf(dma_buf, m_start, !ret);
>> 
>>  	ret = (ret < 0) ? ret : num;
>>  out:
>> --
>> 2.30.2
>> 
>> 
> 
> This change as commit 03fbb903c8bf ("i2c: at91: use dma safe buffers")
> causes the following clang warning:

Ugh..

> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c:707:6: error: variable 'dma_buf'
> is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false
> [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>         if (dev->use_dma) {
>             ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c:717:27: note: uninitialized use 
> occurs here
>         i2c_put_dma_safe_msg_buf(dma_buf, m_start, !ret);
>                                  ^~~~~~~
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c:707:2: note: remove the 'if' if
> its condition is always true
>         if (dev->use_dma) {
>         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-master.c:659:13: note: initialize the
> variable 'dma_buf' to silence this warning
>         u8 *dma_buf;
>                    ^
>                     = NULL
> 1 error generated.
> 
> Should this variable be initialized or should the call to
> i2c_put_dma_safe_msg_buf() be moved into the if statement?

Initializing dma_buf with NULL should to the trick because
i2c_put_dma_safe_msg_buf() is handling NULL gracefully. No
need for an extra "if (dma_buf)".

Will you take care or should I send a patch?

-michael



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