The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From c50f11c6196f45c92ca48b16a5071615d4ae0572 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon will@kernel.org Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:12:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Don't invalidate FROM_DEVICE buffers at start of DMA transfer
Invalidating the buffer memory in arch_sync_dma_for_device() for FROM_DEVICE transfers
When using the streaming DMA API to map a buffer prior to inbound non-coherent DMA (i.e. DMA_FROM_DEVICE), we invalidate any dirty CPU cachelines so that they will not be written back during the transfer and corrupt the buffer contents written by the DMA. This, however, poses two potential problems:
(1) If the DMA transfer does not write to every byte in the buffer, then the unwritten bytes will contain stale data once the transfer has completed.
(2) If the buffer has a virtual alias in userspace, then stale data may be visible via this alias during the period between performing the cache invalidation and the DMA writes landing in memory.
Address both of these issues by cleaning (aka writing-back) the dirty lines in arch_sync_dma_for_device(DMA_FROM_DEVICE) instead of discarding them using invalidation.
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Cc: Robin Murphy robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: Russell King linux@armlinux.org.uk Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220606152150.GA31568@willie-the-truck Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610151228.4562-2-will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S index 0ea6cc25dc66..21c907987080 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S @@ -218,8 +218,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(__dma_flush_area, __pi___dma_flush_area) */ SYM_FUNC_START(__pi___dma_map_area) add x1, x0, x1 - cmp w2, #DMA_FROM_DEVICE - b.eq __pi_dcache_inval_poc b __pi_dcache_clean_poc SYM_FUNC_END(__pi___dma_map_area) SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(__dma_map_area, __pi___dma_map_area)