linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] swiotlb: Make DIRECT_MAPPING

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Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:09:52 +0000
From:   Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To:     hch@....de, konrad.wilk@...cle.com
Cc:     m.szyprowski@...sung.com, john.stultz@...aro.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] swiotlb: Make DIRECT_MAPPING_ERROR viable

With the overflow buffer removed, we no longer have a unique address
which is guaranteed not to be a valid DMA target to use as an error
token. The DIRECT_MAPPING_ERROR value of 0 tries to at least represent
an unlikely DMA target, but unfortunately there are already SWIOTLB
users with DMA-able memory at physical address 0 which now gets falsely
treated as a mapping failure and leads to all manner of misbehaviour.

The best we can do to mitigate that is flip DIRECT_MAPPING_ERROR to the
commonly-used all-bits-set value, since the last single byte of memory
is by far the least-likely-valid DMA target.

Fixes: dff8d6c1ed58 ("swiotlb: remove the overflow buffer")]
Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
---
 include/linux/dma-direct.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/dma-direct.h b/include/linux/dma-direct.h
index bd73e7a91410..9de9c7ab39d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-direct.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-direct.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/mem_encrypt.h>

-#define DIRECT_MAPPING_ERROR		0
+#define DIRECT_MAPPING_ERROR		~(dma_addr_t)0

 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
 #include <asm/dma-direct.h>
-- 
2.19.1.dirty