From: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ryan Wanner <ryan.wanner@microchip.com>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] spi: atmel: limit transfers to the bounce buffer size
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:40:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111154024.543546-1-angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com> (raw)
On SAM9 SoCs (CONFIG_SOC_SAM_V4_V5) a DMA transfer from or to a vmalloc
buffer goes through bounce buffers of SPI_MAX_DMA_XFER bytes. The whole
transfer is copied in them though, whatever its length, and nothing
limits the length of a transfer: a longer one is copied past the end of
the buffer.
The MIPI DBI panel drivers send a whole frame from the framebuffer, a
vmalloc buffer, in one transfer: 153600 bytes for a 320x240 ILI9341
panel. On an Arietta G25 (SAM9G25), once the driver accepts their 16 bit
transfers, the first frame oopses:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c8915000 when write
PC is at mmiocpy+0x34/0x2a0
mmiocpy from atmel_spi_one_transfer+0x4f0/0x77c
When the bounce buffers are in use, report SPI_MAX_DMA_XFER as the
maximum transfer size, so that SPI device drivers split longer
transfers.
Fixes: a9889ed62d06 ("spi: atmel: Implements transfers with bounce buffer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
---
drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c b/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c
index ffc1292b0..fb8d4c7c9 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c
@@ -591,6 +591,12 @@ static void atmel_spi_release_dma(void *data)
}
}
+/* Transfers from vmalloc buffers are copied in the bounce buffers */
+static size_t atmel_spi_max_transfer_size(struct spi_device *spi)
+{
+ return SPI_MAX_DMA_XFER;
+}
+
static int atmel_spi_configure_dma(struct spi_controller *host,
struct atmel_spi *as)
{
@@ -637,6 +643,8 @@ static int atmel_spi_configure_dma(struct spi_controller *host,
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err_release_dma;
}
+
+ host->max_transfer_size = atmel_spi_max_transfer_size;
}
err = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, atmel_spi_release_dma, host);
--
2.53.0
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