Re: [PATCH net-next] net: thunderbolt: Clear finished Tx frame bus address in tbnet_tx_callback()

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 07:21:24PM +0900, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Thu,  9 Nov 2017 13:46:28 +0300
> 
> > When Thunderbolt network interface is disabled or when the cable is
> > unplugged the driver releases all allocated buffers by calling
> > tbnet_free_buffers() for each ring. This function then calls
> > dma_unmap_page() for each buffer it finds where bus address is non-zero.
> > Now, we only clear this bus address when the Tx buffer is sent to the
> > hardware so it is possible that the function finds an entry that has
> > already been unmapped.
> > 
> > Enabling DMA-API debugging catches this as well:
> > 
> >   thunderbolt 0000:06:00.0: DMA-API: device driver tries to free DMA
> >     memory it has not allocated [device address=0x0000000068321000] [size=4096 bytes]
> > 
> > Fix this by clearing the bus address of a Tx frame right after we have
> > unmapped the buffer.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Applied, but assuming zero is a non-valid DMA address is never a good
> idea.  That's why we have the DMA error code signaling abstracted.

There does not seem to be a way to mark DMA address invalid in a driver
so we probably need to add a flag to struct tbnet_frame instead.