ARM: 8546/1: dma-mapping: refactor to fix coherent+cma+gfp=0
Given a device which uses arm_coherent_dma_ops and on which dev_get_cma_area(dev) returns non-NULL, the following usage of the DMA API with gfp=0 results in memory corruption and a memory leak. p = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, sz, &dma, 0); if (p) dma_free_coherent(dev, sz, p, dma); The memory leak is because the alloc allocates using __alloc_simple_buffer() but the free attempts dma_release_from_contiguous() which does not do free anything since the page is not in the CMA area. The memory corruption is because the free calls __dma_remap() on a page which is backed by only first level page tables. The apply_to_page_range() + __dma_update_pte() loop ends up interpreting the section mapping as an addresses to a second level page table and writing the new PTE to memory which is not used by page tables. We don't have access to the GFP flags used for allocation in the free function. Fix this by adding allocator backends and using this information in the free function so that we always use the correct release routine. Fixes: 21caf3a7 ("ARM: 8398/1: arm DMA: Fix allocation from CMA for coherent DMA") Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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