linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: cma: honor __GFP_ZERO flag in cma

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Date:   Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:52:42 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: cma: honor __GFP_ZERO flag in cma_alloc()

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:58:37AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> cma_alloc() function has gfp mask parameter, so users expect that it
> honors typical memory allocation related flags. The most imporant from
> the security point of view is handling of __GFP_ZERO flag, because memory
> allocated by this function usually can be directly remapped to userspace
> by device drivers as a part of multimedia processing and ignoring this
> flag might lead to leaking some kernel structures to userspace.
> Some callers of this function (for example arm64 dma-iommu glue code)
> already assumed that the allocated buffers are cleared when this flag
> is set. To avoid such issues, add simple code for clearing newly
> allocated buffer when __GFP_ZERO flag is set. Callers will be then
> updated to skip implicit clearing or adjust passed gfp flags.

dma mapping implementations need to zero all memory returned anyway
(even if a few implementation don't do that yet).

I'd rather keep the zeroing in the common callers.