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dma-mapping: use bit masking to check VM_DMA_COHERENT

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In dma_common_find_pages(), area->flags are compared directly with
VM_DMA_COHERENT. This works because VM_DMA_COHERENT is the only set
flag.

During development of a new feature (ASI [1]), a new VM flag is
introduced, and that flag can be injected into VM_DMA_COHERENT mappings
(among others).  The presence of that flag caused
dma_common_find_pages() to return NULL for VM_DMA_COHERENT addresses,
leading to a lot of problems ending in crashing during boot. It took a
bit of time to figure this problem out.

It was a mistake to inject a VM flag to begin with, but it took a
significant amount of debugging to figure out the problem. Most users of
area->flags use bitmasking rather than equivalency to check for flags.
Update dma_common_find_pages() and dma_common_free_remap() to do the
same, which would have avoided the boot crashing. Instead, add a warning
in dma_common_find_pages() if any extra VM flags are set to catch such
problems more easily during development.

No functional change intended.

[1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240712-asi-rfc-24-v1-0-144b319a40d8@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Yosry Ahmed 2024-08-10 00:59:11 +00:00 committed by Christoph Hellwig
parent 47ac09b91b
commit fa3c109a6d
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ struct page **dma_common_find_pages(void *cpu_addr)
{
struct vm_struct *area = find_vm_area(cpu_addr);
if (!area || area->flags != VM_DMA_COHERENT)
if (!area || !(area->flags & VM_DMA_COHERENT))
return NULL;
WARN(area->flags != VM_DMA_COHERENT,
"unexpected flags in area: %p\n", cpu_addr);
return area->pages;
}
@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ void dma_common_free_remap(void *cpu_addr, size_t size)
{
struct vm_struct *area = find_vm_area(cpu_addr);
if (!area || area->flags != VM_DMA_COHERENT) {
if (!area || !(area->flags & VM_DMA_COHERENT)) {
WARN(1, "trying to free invalid coherent area: %p\n", cpu_addr);
return;
}