From 7007c894631cf43041dcfa0da7142bbaa7eb673c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:37:05 -0700 Subject: Reinstate some of "swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE"" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit commit 901c7280ca0d5e2b4a8929fbe0bfb007ac2a6544 upstream. Halil Pasic points out [1] that the full revert of that commit (revert in bddac7c1e02b), and that a partial revert that only reverts the problematic case, but still keeps some of the cleanups is probably better.  And that partial revert [2] had already been verified by Oleksandr Natalenko to also fix the issue, I had just missed that in the long discussion. So let's reinstate the cleanups from commit aa6f8dcbab47 ("swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE""), and effectively only revert the part that caused problems. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220328013731.017ae3e3.pasic@linux.ibm.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220324055732.GB12078@lst.de/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4386660.LvFx2qVVIh@natalenko.name/ [3] Suggested-by: Halil Pasic Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3