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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND] ARM: DMA: Fix kzalloc flags in __iommu_alloc_buffer()
On 02/13/2015 12:32 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 09:01:41AM +0000, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>> There doesn't seem to be any valid reason to allocate the pages array
>> with the same flags as the buffer itself. Doing so can eventually lead
>> to the following safeguard in mm/slab.c to be hit:
>>
>> BUG_ON(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK);
>
> nit: I can't actually spot this BUG_ON in the kernel.

I have been trying to push this patch for so long that the line in
question changed in the meantime. :) It is now

if (unlikely(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK)) {
pr_emerg("gfp: %u\n", flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK);
BUG();
}

in cache_grow, line 2593 of mm/slab.c.

>
>> This happens when buffers are allocated with __GFP_DMA32 or
>> __GFP_HIGHMEM.
>>
>> Fix this by allocating the pages array with GFP_KERNEL to follow what is
>> done elsewhere in this file. Using GFP_KERNEL in __iommu_alloc_buffer()
>> is safe because atomic allocations are handled by __iommu_alloc_atomic().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
>> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
>> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
>> index 903dba0..170a116 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
>> @@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static struct page **__iommu_alloc_buffer(struct device *dev, size_t size,
>> int i = 0;
>>
>> if (array_size <= PAGE_SIZE)
>> - pages = kzalloc(array_size, gfp);
>> + pages = kzalloc(array_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> else
>> pages = vzalloc(array_size);
>> if (!pages)
>> --
>> 2.3.0
>
> Looks sensible to me:
>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Thanks! I will amend the commit message and resend.


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