On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:33 AM Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com wrote:
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 Reviewed-by: Steven Price steven.price@arm.com
For more information, see '[PATCH v5 00/38] DRM: fix struct sg_table nents vs. orig_nents misuse' thread: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20200513132114.6046-1-m.szyprowski@samsu...
drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c | 4 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_mmu.c | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring robh@kernel.org