[PATCH] dma-direct: fix DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING
Walter Wu
walter-zh.wu at mediatek.com
Tue Nov 2 00:08:11 PDT 2021
Hi Cristoph,
On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 07:41 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As others pointed out, DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING just means the
> caller can't rely on a kernel mapping. So the "fix" here is
> wrong. That being said for cases where we can easily remove a page
> from the kernel mapping it would be nice to do to:
>
> a) improve security
> b) as a debug check to see that no one actually tries to access it
>
I will modify my commit message. Thanks for your comment.
> > + /* remove kernel mapping for pages */
> > + set_memory_valid((unsigned
> > long)phys_to_virt(dma_to_phys(dev, *dma_handle)),
>
> Please avoid overly long lines. Also this function only exists for
> arm64
> also and others pointed out won't work for all cases.
Got it. I will send v2 patch.
Thanks for your review and suggestion.
Walter
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