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Commit 77873803 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams
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net_dma: mark broken

net_dma can cause data to be copied to a stale mapping if a
copy-on-write fault occurs during dma.  The application sees missing
data.

The following trace is triggered by modifying the kernel to WARN if it
ever triggers copy-on-write on a page that is undergoing dma:

 WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 2529 at lib/dma-debug.c:485 debug_dma_assert_idle+0xd2/0x120()
 ioatdma 0000:00:04.0: DMA-API: cpu touching an active dma mapped page [pfn=0x16bcd9]
 Modules linked in: iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ioatdma lpc_ich pcspkr dca
 CPU: 24 PID: 2529 Comm: linbug Tainted: G        W    3.13.0-rc1+ #353
  00000000000001e5 ffff88016f45f688 ffffffff81751041 ffff88017ab0ef70
  ffff88016f45f6d8 ffff88016f45f6c8 ffffffff8104ed9c ffffffff810f3646
  ffff8801768f4840 0000000000000282 ffff88016f6cca10 00007fa2bb699349
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81751041>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
  [<ffffffff8104ed9c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
  [<ffffffff810f3646>] ? ftrace_pid_func+0x26/0x30
  [<ffffffff8104ee86>] warn_slowpath_...
parent 0baf8f6a
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