[PATCH v2] ARM: DMA: Fix kzalloc flags in __dma_alloc

From: Alexandre Courbot
Date: Fri Mar 18 2016 - 05:29:11 EST


Commit 19e6e5e5392b ("ARM: 8547/1: dma-mapping: store buffer
information") allocates a structure meant for internal buffer management
with the GFP flags of the buffer itself. This can trigger the following
safeguard in the slab/slub allocator:

if (unlikely(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK)) {
pr_emerg("gfp: %u\n", flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK);
BUG();
}

Fix this by filtering the flags that make the slab allocator unhappy.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>
---
Changes since v1:
- Filter flags that may cause problem instead of forcing GFP_KERNEL
(and risk sleeping in atomic context), as suggested by Rabin.

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index deac58d5f1f7..c941e93048ad 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -762,7 +762,8 @@ static void *__dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle,
if (!mask)
return NULL;

- buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), gfp);
+ buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf),
+ gfp & ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_DMA32 | __GFP_HIGHMEM));
if (!buf)
return NULL;

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