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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] hwmon: (powerz) Avoid cacheline sharing for DMA buffer" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
@ 2026-05-01 12:25 gregkh
  2026-05-05  0:15 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] dma-mapping: add __dma_from_device_group_begin()/end() Sasha Levin
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From: gregkh @ 2026-05-01 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux, linux; +Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 3023c050af3600bf451153335dea5e073c9a3088
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026050159-extinct-precision-0d22@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 3023c050af3600bf451153335dea5e073c9a3088 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 20:45:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] hwmon: (powerz) Avoid cacheline sharing for DMA buffer
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Depending on the architecture the transfer buffer may share a cacheline
with the following mutex. As the buffer may be used for DMA, that is
problematic.

Use the high-level DMA helpers to make sure that cacheline sharing can
not happen.

Also drop the comment, as the helpers are documentation enough.

https://sashiko.dev/#/message/20260408175814.934BFC19421%40smtp.kernel.org

Fixes: 4381a36abdf1c ("hwmon: add POWER-Z driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # ca085faabb42: dma-mapping: add __dma_from_device_group_begin()/end()
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260408-powerz-cacheline-alias-v1-1-1254891be0dd@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/powerz.c b/drivers/hwmon/powerz.c
index 96438f5f05d4..6e1359144cab 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/powerz.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/powerz.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/hwmon.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
@@ -33,7 +34,9 @@ struct powerz_sensor_data {
 } __packed;
 
 struct powerz_priv {
-	char transfer_buffer[64];	/* first member to satisfy DMA alignment */
+	__dma_from_device_group_begin();
+	char transfer_buffer[64];
+	__dma_from_device_group_end();
 	struct mutex mutex;
 	struct completion completion;
 	struct urb *urb;


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