Re: [patch for-5.8 1/4] dma-direct: always align allocation size in dma_direct_alloc_pages()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jun 15 2020 - 02:55:00 EST


On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:20:28PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> dma_alloc_contiguous() does size >> PAGE_SHIFT and set_memory_decrypted()
> works at page granularity. It's necessary to page align the allocation
> size in dma_direct_alloc_pages() for consistent behavior.
>
> This also fixes an issue when arch_dma_prep_coherent() is called on an
> unaligned allocation size for dma_alloc_need_uncached() when
> CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_REMAP is disabled but CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
> is enabled.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/dma/direct.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/direct.c b/kernel/dma/direct.c
> --- a/kernel/dma/direct.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/direct.c
> @@ -112,11 +112,12 @@ static inline bool dma_should_free_from_pool(struct device *dev,
> struct page *__dma_direct_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> gfp_t gfp, unsigned long attrs)
> {
> - size_t alloc_size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
> int node = dev_to_node(dev);
> struct page *page = NULL;
> u64 phys_limit;
>
> + VM_BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(size));

This really should be a WARN_ON_ONCE, but I've fixed this up before
applying. I've also added a prep patch to mark __dma_direct_alloc_pages
static as part of auditing for other callers.