linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] ARM: Fix MAX_DMA

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Message-ID: <33f4adff-03b0-3726-c4ba-98971ed46b85@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:28:11 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ssantosh@...nel.org,
        ardb@...nel.org, linus.walleij@...aro.org, geert+renesas@...der.be
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ARM: Fix MAX_DMA_ADDRESS overflow

On 7/6/22 13:33, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Commit 26f09e9b3a06 ("mm/memblock: add memblock memory allocation apis")
> added a check to determine whether arm_dma_zone_size is exceeding the
> amount of kernel virtual address space available between the upper 4GB
> virtual address limit and PAGE_OFFSET in order to provide a suitable
> definition of MAX_DMA_ADDRESS that should fit within the 32-bit virtual
> address space. The quantity used for comparison was off by a missing
> trailing 0, leading to MAX_DMA_ADDRESS to be overflowing a 32-bit
> quantity.
> 
> This was caught thanks to CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL on the bcm2711 platform
> where we define a dma_zone_size of 1GB and we have a PAGE_OFFSET value
> of 0xc000_0000 (CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G) leading to MAX_DMA_ADDRESS being
> 0x1_0000_0000 which overflows the unsigned long type used throughout
> __pa() and then __virt_addr_valid(). Because the virtual address passed
> to __virt_addr_valid() would now be 0, the function would loudly warn
> and flood the kernel log, thus making the platform unable to boot
> properly.
> 
> Fixes: 26f09e9b3a06 ("mm/memblock: add memblock memory allocation apis")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Shall I send this to RMK's patch system?
-- 
Florian