[PATCH 2/2] gpu: nova-core: falcon: use I/O projection to check transfer bounds

From: Alexandre Courbot

Date: Fri Jul 24 2026 - 07:29:06 EST


The DMA transfer routine was computing the start of the DMA area by
taking the handle to the beginning of the coherent allocation, and then
adding the transfer's start offset. It then checked manually that the
upper bound was valid.

Convert this to an I/O projection of the same region, which returns
`ERANGE` if the passed range does not fit within the coherent
allocation. This removes the need to perform arithmetic on DMA handles
and to explicitly check for the bounds' validity.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs | 55 +++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
index cd05985f5ee6..344cb1487295 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
DmaAddress, //
},
io::{
+ io_project,
poll::read_poll_timeout,
register::{
RegisterBase,
@@ -511,20 +512,31 @@ fn dma_wr(
) -> Result {
const DMA_LEN: u32 = num::usize_into_u32::<{ MEM_BLOCK_ALIGNMENT }>();

+ // DMA transfers can only be done in units of 256 bytes. Compute how many such transfers we
+ // need to perform.
+ let num_transfers = load_offsets.len.div_ceil(DMA_LEN);
+
// For IMEM, we want to use the start offset as a virtual address tag for each page, since
// code addresses in the firmware (and the boot vector) are virtual.
//
- // For DMEM we can fold the start offset into the DMA handle.
+ // For DMEM, the start offset is folded into the DMA address.
let (src_start, dma_start) = match target_mem {
- FalconMem::ImemSecure | FalconMem::ImemNonSecure => {
- (load_offsets.src_start, dma_obj.dma_handle())
- }
- FalconMem::Dmem => (
- 0,
- dma_obj.dma_handle() + DmaAddress::from(load_offsets.src_start),
- ),
+ FalconMem::ImemSecure | FalconMem::ImemNonSecure => (load_offsets.src_start, 0),
+ FalconMem::Dmem => (0, usize::from_safe_cast(load_offsets.src_start)),
};
- if dma_start % DmaAddress::from(DMA_LEN) > 0 {
+
+ let dma_handle = {
+ // Upper limit of transfer is `(num_transfers * DMA_LEN) + load_offsets.src_start`.
+ let dma_end = num_transfers
+ .checked_mul(DMA_LEN)
+ .and_then(|size| size.checked_add(load_offsets.src_start))
+ .map(usize::from_safe_cast)
+ .ok_or(EOVERFLOW)?;
+
+ io_project!(dma_obj, [try: dma_start..dma_end]).dma_handle()
+ };
+
+ if dma_handle % DmaAddress::from(DMA_LEN) > 0 {
dev_err!(
self.dev,
"DMA transfer start addresses must be a multiple of {}\n",
@@ -533,27 +545,6 @@ fn dma_wr(
return Err(EINVAL);
}

- // DMA transfers can only be done in units of 256 bytes. Compute how many such transfers we
- // need to perform.
- let num_transfers = load_offsets.len.div_ceil(DMA_LEN);
-
- // Check that the area we are about to transfer is within the bounds of the DMA object.
- // Upper limit of transfer is `(num_transfers * DMA_LEN) + load_offsets.src_start`.
- match num_transfers
- .checked_mul(DMA_LEN)
- .and_then(|size| size.checked_add(load_offsets.src_start))
- {
- None => {
- dev_err!(self.dev, "DMA transfer length overflow\n");
- return Err(EOVERFLOW);
- }
- Some(upper_bound) if usize::from_safe_cast(upper_bound) > dma_obj.size() => {
- dev_err!(self.dev, "DMA transfer goes beyond range of DMA object\n");
- return Err(EINVAL);
- }
- Some(_) => (),
- };
-
// Set up the base source DMA address.

self.bar.write(
@@ -561,12 +552,12 @@ fn dma_wr(
regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_DMATRFBASE::zeroed().with_base(
// CAST: `as u32` is used on purpose since we do want to strip the upper bits,
// which will be written to `NV_PFALCON_FALCON_DMATRFBASE1`.
- (dma_start >> 8) as u32,
+ (dma_handle >> 8) as u32,
),
);
self.bar.write(
WithBase::of::<E>(),
- regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_DMATRFBASE1::zeroed().try_with_base(dma_start >> 40)?,
+ regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_DMATRFBASE1::zeroed().try_with_base(dma_handle >> 40)?,
);

let cmd = regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_DMATRFCMD::zeroed()

--
2.55.0