linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] drm/tegra: gem: Fix CPU-cache maintenance for BO's allocated using get

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20190418100048.GE26909@ulmo>
Date:   Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:00:48 +0200
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] drm/tegra: gem: Fix CPU-cache maintenance for BO's
 allocated using get_pages()

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:55:19AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> The allocated pages need to be invalidated in CPU caches. On ARM32 the
> DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL flag only ensures that data is written-back to DRAM and
> the data stays in CPU cache lines. While the DMA_FROM_DEVICE flag ensures
> that the corresponding CPU cache lines are getting invalidated and nothing
> more, that's exactly what is needed for a newly allocated pages.
> 
> This fixes randomly failing rendercheck tests on Tegra30 using the
> Opentegra driver for tests that use small-sized pixmaps (10x10 and less,
> i.e. 1-2 memory pages) because apparently CPU reads out stale data from
> caches and/or that data is getting evicted to DRAM at the time of HW job
> execution.
> 
> Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/gem.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

Thierry

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (834 bytes)