linux-kernel - dma_zalloc_coherent broken with 57bf5a8963f80fb3828c46c3e3a5b2dd790e09a7

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Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:12:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: dma_zalloc_coherent broken with
 57bf5a8963f80fb3828c46c3e3a5b2dd790e09a7

Hi,

commit 57bf5a8963f80fb3828c46c3e3a5b2dd790e09a7 broke usage of dma
allocations specifying __GFP_ZERO by silently removing that flag.

Why should "the memory returned [] always be zeroed."?

Regards,
Sebastian