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author | Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> | 2020-08-26 08:33:12 +0200 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-08-28 12:10:04 +0200 |
commit | 7cd7edb89437457ec36ffdbb970cc314d00c4aba (patch) | |
tree | 13e5160986c31b27f867c69dcfc4c07d74716070 /drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_linux.c | |
parent | fe69795e84a553b838504e0acdb4a57c3fbdd200 (diff) | |
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misc: fastrpc: fix common struct sg_table related issues
The Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt states that the dma_map_sg() function
returns the number of the created entries in the DMA address space.
However the subsequent calls to the dma_sync_sg_for_{device,cpu}() and
dma_unmap_sg must be called with the original number of the entries
passed to the dma_map_sg().
struct sg_table is a common structure used for describing a non-contiguous
memory buffer, used commonly in the DRM and graphics subsystems. It
consists of a scatterlist with memory pages and DMA addresses (sgl entry),
as well as the number of scatterlist entries: CPU pages (orig_nents entry)
and DMA mapped pages (nents entry).
It turned out that it was a common mistake to misuse nents and orig_nents
entries, calling DMA-mapping functions with a wrong number of entries or
ignoring the number of mapped entries returned by the dma_map_sg()
function.
To avoid such issues, lets use a common dma-mapping wrappers operating
directly on the struct sg_table objects and use scatterlist page
iterators where possible. This, almost always, hides references to the
nents and orig_nents entries, making the code robust, easier to follow
and copy/paste safe.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200826063316.23486-29-m.szyprowski@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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