Re: [REGRESSION] Recent swiotlb DMA_FROM_DEVICE fixes break ath9k-based AP

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Mar 27 2022 - 20:38:07 EST


On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:37 PM Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> For the record, I believe that the partial revert proposed here
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg222300.html
> would have been a wiser choice, than a complete revert of commit
> aa6f8dcbab47 ("swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE"").

Yeah, the revert is basically my standard "this doesn't work,
discussion is still ongoing" thing.

I agree that the revert then brought back that DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC
complexity.

So that part of commit aa6f8dcbab47 was probably all good.

I somehow missed that Oleksandr had a tested-by for that smaller change too.

Linus