Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Oct 13 2017 - 03:11:27 EST


On Thu 12-10-17 19:22:05, Sasha Levin wrote:
> We have missed removing some code as part of removing the kmemcheck
> hooks.
>
> Unfourtenatly this got missed during my review, and the code was
> still building.
>
> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Yes this would be the proper fix for the specific issue I have noticed.
There might be others I haven't even checked. Really the only way to
make this chage is to post a reproducible steps to regenerate your diff
and review that the used scripts are correct. Follow up fixes are not a
way to go

> ---
> include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> index 83f3ab31efc4..2911389bc147 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> @@ -260,10 +260,8 @@ static inline int dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
> unsigned long attrs)
> {
> const struct dma_map_ops *ops = get_dma_ops(dev);
> - int i, ents;
> - struct scatterlist *s;
> + int ents;
>
> - for_each_sg(sg, s, nents, i)
> BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(dir));
> ents = ops->map_sg(dev, sg, nents, dir, attrs);
> BUG_ON(ents < 0);
> --
> 2.11.0

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs