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-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dma-mapping.h8
-rw-r--r--kernel/dma/swiotlb.c23
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
index 17706dc91ec9..1887d92e8e92 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
@@ -130,11 +130,3 @@ accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged
subsystem that the buffer is fully accessible at the elevated privilege
level (and ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at the
lesser-privileged levels).
-
-DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE
-------------------
-
-This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected to
-overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any of the
-previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows bounce-buffering
-implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers.
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 6150d11a607e..dca2b1355bb1 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -62,14 +62,6 @@
#define DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED (1UL << 9)
/*
- * This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected
- * to overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any
- * of the previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows
- * bounce-buffering implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers.
- */
-#define DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE (1UL << 10)
-
-/*
* A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA or bus address for the platform. It can
* be given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. It is specific to a
* given device and there may be a translation between the CPU physical address
diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
index aca0690550e2..e58dce93c661 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
@@ -578,10 +578,14 @@ phys_addr_t swiotlb_tbl_map_single(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t orig_addr,
for (i = 0; i < nr_slots(alloc_size + offset); i++)
mem->slots[index + i].orig_addr = slot_addr(orig_addr, i);
tlb_addr = slot_addr(mem->start, index) + offset;
- if (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC) &&
- (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE) || dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE ||
- dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL))
- swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+ /*
+ * When dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE we could omit the copy from the orig
+ * to the tlb buffer, if we knew for sure the device will
+ * overwirte the entire current content. But we don't. Thus
+ * unconditional bounce may prevent leaking swiotlb content (i.e.
+ * kernel memory) to user-space.
+ */
+ swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
return tlb_addr;
}
@@ -648,10 +652,13 @@ void swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr,
void swiotlb_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr,
size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir)
{
- if (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
- swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
- else
- BUG_ON(dir != DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+ /*
+ * Unconditional bounce is necessary to avoid corruption on
+ * sync_*_for_cpu or dma_ummap_* when the device didn't overwrite
+ * the whole lengt of the bounce buffer.
+ */
+ swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+ BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(dir));
}
void swiotlb_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr,