arm64: mm: Don't invalidate FROM_DEVICE buffers at start of DMA transfer
commit c50f11c6 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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