From: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>,
iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] dma-mapping: don't trace the DMA address when the allocation fails
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 21:01:24 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907120124.603373-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
dma_alloc_attrs() passes *dma_handle to trace_dma_alloc() without
checking whether the allocation succeeded. No backend writes it on
failure: dma_direct_alloc(), iommu_dma_alloc() and the dma_map_ops
instances assign it only on the path that returns a buffer. Callers
usually pass an uninitialized automatic variable, so a failed allocation
records whatever the stack held, next to the virt_addr=(null) that marks
the record as an error:
dma_alloc: dmatrace dir=BIDIRECTIONAL dma_addr=deadbeefdeadbeef
size=1099511627776 virt_addr=0000000000000000
The device coherent pool path reaches the same call: a non-zero return
from dma_alloc_from_dev_coherent() means the request was handled, not
that it succeeded, so cpu_addr is NULL and dma_handle is untouched once
the pool runs out.
For an allocation event a NULL virt_addr already means the request
failed, so the address field carries nothing. Report 0 for it in the
event class rather than at each call site, which covers dma_alloc_pages()
and dma_alloc_sgt_err() as well.
Fixes: 038eb433dc14 ("dma-mapping: add tracing for dma-mapping API calls")
Fixes: 68b6dbf1f441 ("dma-mapping: trace more error paths")
Suggested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
---
v2:
- report 0 in the event class instead of splitting the two call sites,
as suggested by Marek. kernel/dma/mapping.c is untouched now, so
debug_dma_alloc_coherent() keeps being called for a failed allocation
and decides for itself what to do with it.
- tested on x86_64 rather than compile-tested only.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20260905071919.30784-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com/
Tested with a module that puts a known value in the caller's handle and
then asks for 1 TiB from a 32-bit capable device, with the dma_alloc
event enabled. Before, the record carries the caller's stale value; after,
it carries 0:
-dma_addr=deadbeefdeadbeef size=1099511627776 virt_addr=0000000000000000
+dma_addr=0 size=1099511627776 virt_addr=0000000000000000
A PAGE_SIZE request from the same device, as a control, reports its real
address on both kernels, matching the handle the caller got back.
This changes what the record contains, not what the caller does:
*dma_handle is still read to build the tracepoint arguments, since those
are evaluated before the static branch.
include/trace/events/dma.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/trace/events/dma.h b/include/trace/events/dma.h
index 9df02c1511de..b06d8f99922d 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/dma.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/dma.h
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(dma_alloc_class,
TP_fast_assign(
__assign_str(device);
__entry->virt_addr = virt_addr;
- __entry->dma_addr = dma_addr;
+ __entry->dma_addr = virt_addr ? dma_addr : 0;
__entry->size = size;
__entry->flags = flags;
__entry->dir = dir;
base-commit: cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935
--
2.53.0
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2026-09-07 12:01 ` Donggeun Yoo [this message]
2026-09-08 11:54 ` Sean Anderson
2026-09-09 9:31 ` Marek Szyprowski
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