[PATCH] ARM: dma-mapping: fix incorrect freeing of atomic allocations

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Tue Aug 7 09:20:11 EDT 2012


Hi Aaro,

On Sunday, August 05, 2012 2:50 PM Aaro Koskinen wrote:

> Commit e9da6e9905e639b0f842a244bc770b48ad0523e9 (ARM: dma-mapping:
> remove custom consistent dma region) changed the way atomic allocations
> are handled. However, arm_dma_free() was not modified accordingly, and
> as a result freeing of atomic allocations does not work correctly when
> CMA is disabled. Memory is leaked and following WARNINGs are seen:
> 
> [   57.698911] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   57.753518] WARNING: at arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:263 arm_dma_free+0x88/0xe4()
> [   57.811473] trying to free invalid coherent area: e0848000
> [   57.867398] Modules linked in: sata_mv(-)
> [   57.921373] [<c000d270>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf0) from [<c0015430>]
> (warn_slowpath_common+0x50/0x68)
> [   58.033924] [<c0015430>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x50/0x68) from [<c00154dc>]
> (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
> [   58.152024] [<c00154dc>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40) from [<c000dc18>]
> (arm_dma_free+0x88/0xe4)
> [   58.219592] [<c000dc18>] (arm_dma_free+0x88/0xe4) from [<c008fa30>]
> (dma_pool_destroy+0x100/0x148)
> [   58.345526] [<c008fa30>] (dma_pool_destroy+0x100/0x148) from [<c019a64c>]
> (release_nodes+0x144/0x218)
> [   58.475782] [<c019a64c>] (release_nodes+0x144/0x218) from [<c0197e10>]
> (__device_release_driver+0x60/0xb8)
> [   58.614260] [<c0197e10>] (__device_release_driver+0x60/0xb8) from [<c0198608>]
> (driver_detach+0xd8/0xec)
> [   58.756527] [<c0198608>] (driver_detach+0xd8/0xec) from [<c0197c54>]
> (bus_remove_driver+0x7c/0xc4)
> [   58.901648] [<c0197c54>] (bus_remove_driver+0x7c/0xc4) from [<c004bfac>]
> (sys_delete_module+0x19c/0x220)
> [   59.051447] [<c004bfac>] (sys_delete_module+0x19c/0x220) from [<c0009140>]
> (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
> [   59.207996] ---[ end trace 0745420412c0325a ]---
> [   59.287110] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   59.366324] WARNING: at arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:263 arm_dma_free+0x88/0xe4()
> [   59.450511] trying to free invalid coherent area: e0847000
> [   59.534357] Modules linked in: sata_mv(-)
> [   59.616785] [<c000d270>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf0) from [<c0015430>]
> (warn_slowpath_common+0x50/0x68)
> [   59.790030] [<c0015430>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x50/0x68) from [<c00154dc>]
> (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
> [   59.972322] [<c00154dc>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40) from [<c000dc18>]
> (arm_dma_free+0x88/0xe4)
> [   60.070701] [<c000dc18>] (arm_dma_free+0x88/0xe4) from [<c008fa30>]
> (dma_pool_destroy+0x100/0x148)
> [   60.256817] [<c008fa30>] (dma_pool_destroy+0x100/0x148) from [<c019a64c>]
> (release_nodes+0x144/0x218)
> [   60.445201] [<c019a64c>] (release_nodes+0x144/0x218) from [<c0197e10>]
> (__device_release_driver+0x60/0xb8)
> [   60.634148] [<c0197e10>] (__device_release_driver+0x60/0xb8) from [<c0198608>]
> (driver_detach+0xd8/0xec)
> [   60.823623] [<c0198608>] (driver_detach+0xd8/0xec) from [<c0197c54>]
> (bus_remove_driver+0x7c/0xc4)
> [   61.013268] [<c0197c54>] (bus_remove_driver+0x7c/0xc4) from [<c004bfac>]
> (sys_delete_module+0x19c/0x220)
> [   61.203472] [<c004bfac>] (sys_delete_module+0x19c/0x220) from [<c0009140>]
> (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
> [   61.393390] ---[ end trace 0745420412c0325b ]---
> 
> The patch fixes this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>

Thanks for spotting this issue. I've applied it to my fixes branch.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center





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