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SubjectRe: [PATCH] dell_rbu: stop abusing the DMA API
On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 03:15:59PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:34:09AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > For some odd reason dell_rbu actually seems to want the physical and
> > not a bus address for the allocated buffer. Lets assume that actually
> > is correct given that it is BIOS-related and that is a good source
> > of insanity. In that case we should not use dma_alloc_coherent with
> > a NULL device to allocate memory, but use GFP_DMA32 to stay under
> > the 32-bit BIOS limit.
>
> + Mario re bios related physical address - is Christoph's assumption
> correct?
>
> Christoph, did you observe a failure? If so, we should probably also
> tag for stable.

No, I've been auditing for DMA API (ab-)users that don't pass a
struct device. Generally the fix was to just pass a struct device
that is easily available. But dell_rbu doesn't actually seem to
be a "device" in the traditional sense, and the way it uses the
DMA API is really, really odd - it first does a virt_to_phys on
memory allocated from the page allocator (so works with physical
addresses in that case) and the retries with a dma_alloc_coherent
with a NULL argument, which in no way is guaranteed to you give
you something else, although for the current x86 implementation
will give you the equivalent of a GFP_DMA32 page allocator allocation
plus virt_to_phys.

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