netdev - [PATCH 0/3] UIO_MEM_DMA_COHERENT for cnic/bnx2/bnx2x

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:00:20 -0700
From: Chris Leech <cleech@...hat.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Rasesh Mody <rmody@...vell.com>,
	Ariel Elior <aelior@...vell.com>,
	Sudarsana Kalluru <skalluru@...vell.com>,
	Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>
Cc: Nilesh Javali <njavali@...vell.com>,
	Manish Rangankar <mrangankar@...vell.com>,
	Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@...hat.com>,
	John Meneghini <jmeneghi@...hat.com>,
	Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>,
	Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...nel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] UIO_MEM_DMA_COHERENT for cnic/bnx2/bnx2x

During bnx2i iSCSI testing we ran into page refcounting issues in the
uio mmaps exported from cnic to the iscsiuio process, and bisected back
to the removal of the __GFP_COMP flag from dma_alloc_coherent calls.

In order to fix these drivers to be able to mmap dma coherent memory via
a uio device, without resorting to hacks and working with an iommu
enabled, introduce a new uio mmap type backed by dma_mmap_coherent.

While converting the uio interface, I also noticed that not all of these
allocations were PAGE_SIZE aligned. Particularly the bnx2/bnx2x status
block mapping was much smaller than any architecture page size, and I
was concerned that it could be unintentionally exposing kernel memory.

Chris Leech (3):
  uio: introduce UIO_DMA_COHERENT type
  cnic. bnx2, bnx2x: page align uio mmap allocations
  cnic, bnx2, bnx2x: use UIO_MEM_DMA_COHERENT

 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c          |  2 ++
 .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c  | 10 +++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c          | 34 ++++++++++++-------
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.h          |  1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic_if.h       |  1 +
 drivers/uio/uio.c                             | 34 +++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/uio_driver.h                    | 12 +++++--
 7 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

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