Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Nov 2014 14:15:20 +0000 | From | Lorenzo Pieralisi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/2] Fix procfs PCI resources mmap |
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 05:28:04PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > The way PCI memory resources are exported to user space through procfs > is not uniform across architectures. In particular, some architectures > (ie SPARC) export the resource PCI bus address to user space, whereas > others (ARM, PowerPC, Microblaze) export the resource CPU physical address. > This convention should be followed when it comes to passing the pgoff > values to the mmap syscall to map the resource in question. > > Consequently, the checks applied to the offset passed to the mmap syscall > (in pci_mmap_fits()) are to be interpreted differently on different > architectures, and in particular they should match the values exported to > user space through the pci_resource_to_user() conversion function. > > This patch series addresses two issues. First patch applies the > pci_resource_to_user() filter to the PCI resource that is being > mapped in order to carry out a proper check against the pgoff passed > from user space. Second patch fixes the way the pgoff is handled in > the ARM pci_mmap_page_range() implementation.
I appreciate it is hardly number one priority and by no means urgent, but I would like to get some comments if possible on patch 1 since patch 2, that is a fix for ARM, relies on the approach we go for in order to fix the pci_mmap_fits() behaviour (patch 1).
Comments welcome.
Thanks, Lorenzo
> > v1 posting: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141337461318554&w=2 > > v1 => v2 > - Reworded commit log as per RMK comments > > Lorenzo Pieralisi (2): > drivers: pci: fix pci_mmap_fits() implementation for procfs mmap > arm: kernel: fix pci_mmap_page_range() offset calculation > > arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c | 10 ++-------- > drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 13 ++++++++----- > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.1.2 > >
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