[PATCH] Fix strange panic message selection logic when swiotlb fillsup

From: Casey Dahlin
Date: Mon Jul 13 2009 - 15:31:53 EST


swiotlb_full in lib/swiotlb.c contains the following code snippet to produce a panic when the software iotlb is too full to handle a new allocation:

if (size > io_tlb_overflow && do_panic) {
if (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE || dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
panic("DMA: Memory would be corrupted\n");
if (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
panic("DMA: Random memory would be DMAed\n");
}

Note the path when dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL. The first panic() will be called always, yet the second if statement still checks for DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL. Unless we intend to panic twice, this is somewhat confusing.

This patch adds a third, separate error for DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL to make things a bit clearer.

diff --git a/lib/swiotlb.c b/lib/swiotlb.c
index bffe6d7..35e01b3 100644
--- a/lib/swiotlb.c
+++ b/lib/swiotlb.c
@@ -625,12 +625,15 @@ swiotlb_full(struct device *dev, size_t size, int dir, int do_panic)
printk(KERN_ERR "DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for %zu bytes at "
"device %s\n", size, dev ? dev_name(dev) : "?");

- if (size > io_tlb_overflow && do_panic) {
- if (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE || dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
- panic("DMA: Memory would be corrupted\n");
- if (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
- panic("DMA: Random memory would be DMAed\n");
- }
+ if (size <= io_tlb_overflow || !do_panic)
+ return;
+
+ if (dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
+ panic("DMA: Random memory could be corrupted or DMAed\n");
+ if (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE)
+ panic("DMA: Memory would be corrupted\n");
+ if (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE)
+ panic("DMA: Random memory would be DMAed\n");
}

/*
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