linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 05/14] crypto: marvell/CESA: add TDMA support

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Message-ID: <20150618113324.2d469103@bbrezillon>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:33:24 +0200
From:	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@...vell.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Nadav Haklai <nadavh@...vell.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@...vell.com>,
	Eran Ben-Avi <benavi@...vell.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Arnaud Ebalard <arno@...isbad.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Imre Kaloz <kaloz@...nwrt.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/14] crypto: marvell/CESA: add TDMA support

Hi Russel,

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:04:00 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 05:50:01PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 09:45:33AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > >
> > > +	ret = dma_map_sg(cesa_dev->dev, req->src, creq->src_nents,
> > > +			 DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> > > +	if (!ret)
> > > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > > +
> > > +	creq->src_nents = ret;
> > 
> > DMA-API-HOWTO says that you must retain the original nents and
> > use it when you call dma_unmap_sg.  So I'm afraid one more repost
> > is needed :)
> 
> It's worse than that...  You're right on that point, but there's an
> additional point.
> 
> If dma_map_sg() coalesces scatterlist entries, then ret will be smaller
> than src_nents, and ret indicates how many scatterlist entries to be
> walked during DMA - you should not use src_nents for that.  I couldn't
> see where the driver used that information.  In fact, the driver seems
> to be capable of walking more than src_nents/ret numbers of scatterlist
> entries: it just keeps going with sg_next() until it hits the end of
> the allocated scatterlist.

Yes, I realized that, and I never used the value returned by
dma_map_sg() to walk the scatterlist anyway: I was using the sg_next()
and sg->length value (which I replaced by sg_dma_len() in v7 as
suggested by Herbert).
So the ->src_nents assignment to dma_map_sg() return value was just a
silly mistake caused by an uncareful read of the DMA-API-HOWTO.

Am I missing something else ?

Best Regards,

Boris


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