From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BFEC433F5 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2021 07:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9307560EB8 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2021 07:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229849AbhKBH2w (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2021 03:28:52 -0400 Received: from mailgw01.mediatek.com ([60.244.123.138]:40706 "EHLO mailgw01.mediatek.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229497AbhKBH2u (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2021 03:28:50 -0400 X-UUID: e7445f08e2964818a4e40bd383f7fff4-20211102 X-UUID: e7445f08e2964818a4e40bd383f7fff4-20211102 Received: from mtkmbs10n2.mediatek.inc [(172.21.101.183)] by mailgw01.mediatek.com (envelope-from ) (Generic MTA with TLSv1.2 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 256/256) with ESMTP id 1610379575; Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:26:13 +0800 Received: from mtkmbs10n1.mediatek.inc (172.21.101.34) by mtkmbs10n1.mediatek.inc (172.21.101.34) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.2.792.15; Tue, 2 Nov 2021 15:26:12 +0800 Received: from mtksdccf07 (172.21.84.99) by mtkmbs10n1.mediatek.inc (172.21.101.73) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 15.2.792.15 via Frontend Transport; Tue, 2 Nov 2021 15:26:12 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-direct: fix DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING From: Walter Wu To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Marek Szyprowski , Robin Murphy , Matthias Brugger , , , , wsd_upstream , , "Andrew Morton" Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 15:26:12 +0800 In-Reply-To: <20211102064155.GA27749@lst.de> References: <20211101031558.7184-1-walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com> <20211102064155.GA27749@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MTK: N Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph, I am sorry, fix my typo. Walter On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 07:41 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > As others pointed out, DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING just means the > caller can't rely on a kernel mapping. So the "fix" here is > wrong. That being said for cases where we can easily remove a page > from the kernel mapping it would be nice to do to: > > a) improve security > b) as a debug check to see that no one actually tries to access it > > > + /* remove kernel mapping for pages */ > > + set_memory_valid((unsigned > > long)phys_to_virt(dma_to_phys(dev, *dma_handle)), > > Please avoid overly long lines. Also this function only exists for > arm64 > also and others pointed out won't work for all cases.