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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 13 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index 7193505a98ca..8f8d97f65d73 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -156,13 +156,3 @@ accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged subsystem that the buffer is fully accessible at the elevated privilege level (and ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at the lesser-privileged levels). - -DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED -------------------- - -Some advanced peripherals such as remote processors and GPUs perform -accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged -"user" modes. This attribute is used to indicate to the DMA-mapping -subsystem that the buffer is fully accessible at the elevated privilege -level (and ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at the -lesser-privileged levels). diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h index da90f20e11c1..4d450672b7d6 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h @@ -71,14 +71,6 @@ #define DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED (1UL << 9) /* - * This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected - * to overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any - * of the previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows - * bounce-buffering implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers. - */ -#define DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE (1UL << 10) - -/* * A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA or bus address for the platform. * It can be given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. A CPU cannot * reference a dma_addr_t directly because there may be translation between diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c index f17b771856d1..913cb71198af 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c @@ -571,11 +571,14 @@ found: */ for (i = 0; i < nslots; i++) io_tlb_orig_addr[index+i] = orig_addr + (i << IO_TLB_SHIFT); - if (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC) && - (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE) || dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || - dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)) - swiotlb_bounce(orig_addr, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); - + /* + * When dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE we could omit the copy from the orig + * to the tlb buffer, if we knew for sure the device will + * overwirte the entire current content. But we don't. Thus + * unconditional bounce may prevent leaking swiotlb content (i.e. + * kernel memory) to user-space. + */ + swiotlb_bounce(orig_addr, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); return tlb_addr; } |