linux-kernel - [PATCH] Revert "arm64: dma: Drop cache invalidation from arch_dma_prep

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:33:29 +0530
From:   Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
To:     catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org
Cc:     robin.murphy@....com, amit.pundir@...aro.org, andersson@...nel.org,
        quic_sibis@...cinc.com, sumit.semwal@...aro.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "arm64: dma: Drop cache invalidation from arch_dma_prep_coherent()"

This reverts commit c44094eee32f32f175aadc0efcac449d99b1bbf7.

As reported by Amit [1], dropping cache invalidation from
arch_dma_prep_coherent() triggers a crash on the Qualcomm SM8250 platform
(most probably on other Qcom platforms too). The reason is, Qcom
qcom_q6v5_mss driver copies the firmware metadata and shares it with modem
for validation. The modem has a secure block (XPU) that will trigger a
whole system crash if the shared memory is accessed by the CPU while modem
is poking at it.

To avoid this issue, the qcom_q6v5_mss driver allocates a chunk of memory
with no kernel mapping, vmap's it, copies the firmware metadata and
unvmap's it. Finally the address is then shared with modem for metadata
validation [2].

Now because of the removal of cache invalidation from
arch_dma_prep_coherent(), there will be cache lines associated with this
memory even after sharing with modem. So when the CPU accesses it, the XPU
violation gets triggered.

So let's revert this commit to get remoteproc's working (thereby avoiding
full system crash) on Qcom platforms.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/CAMi1Hd1VBCFhf7+EXWHQWcGy4k=tcyLa7RGiFdprtRnegSG0Mw@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5_mss.c#n933

Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
---

Will, Catalin: Please share if you have any other suggestions to handle the
resource sharing in the remoteproc driver that could avoid this revert.

 arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
index 3cb101e8cb29..7d7e9a046305 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ void arch_dma_prep_coherent(struct page *page, size_t size)
 {
 	unsigned long start = (unsigned long)page_address(page);

-	dcache_clean_poc(start, start + size);
+	dcache_clean_inval_poc(start, start + size);
 }

 #ifdef CONFIG_IOMMU_DMA
-- 
2.25.1