Re: [PATCH] x86: dma-mapping: Fix arch_dma_alloc_attrs() oops with NULL dev

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Sun Oct 25 2015 - 17:47:39 EST


> From: Ville SyrjÃlà <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 6894258eda2f ("dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_{attrs,coherent}")
> broke drivers that pass NULL as the device for dma_alloc.
> Fix things by moving the ISA DMA fallback dev assignment earlier.
>
> A quick search suggest that Meelis Roos has hit this with sb16, and I
> caught it with smsc-ircc2. Here's the oops I got:
[...]

The patch also fixes my SB16 issue, thank you!

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
> index 1b55de1..cd99433 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
> @@ -131,11 +131,12 @@ void dma_generic_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *vaddr,
>
> bool arch_dma_alloc_attrs(struct device **dev, gfp_t *gfp)
> {
> + if (!*dev)
> + *dev = &x86_dma_fallback_dev;
> +
> *gfp &= ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_DMA32);
> *gfp = dma_alloc_coherent_gfp_flags(*dev, *gfp);
>
> - if (!*dev)
> - *dev = &x86_dma_fallback_dev;
> if (!is_device_dma_capable(*dev))
> return false;
> return true;
>

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)
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