linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 21 May 2009 20:01:37 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
To:	Becky Bruce <beckyb@...nel.crashing.org>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...abs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:27 -0400, Becky Bruce wrote:
> We have both in every case but one,  
> which is in swiotlb_map_page where we call address_needs_mapping()  
> without calling range_needs_mapping.

The reason it calls address_needs_mapping without range_needs_mapping is
that in the swiotlb_force=1 case it would trigger every time. If
address_needs_mapping and range_needs_mapping are merged as proposed and
they do not subsume the swiotlb_force check (and I don't think they
would) then I think this will work fine.

> It's not actually clear to me that we need that check, though.  Can 
> someone explain what case that was designed to catch?

If map_single fails and returns NULL then we try to use
io_tlb_overflow_buffer, if that is somehow not DMA-able (for the
particular device) then the check will trigger. I would have thought we
could arrange that the overflow buffer is always OK and really if
map_page is failing we must be close the edge already.

Ian.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/