Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_*

Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-12-14T09:54:47Z

Hi Christoph,

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 9:26 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> If we want to map memory from the DMA allocator to userspace it must be
> zeroed at allocation time to prevent stale data leaks. We already do
> this on most common architectures, but some architectures don't do this
> yet, fix them up, either by passing GFP_ZERO when we use the normal page
> allocator or doing a manual memset otherwise.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/dma.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/dma.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ void *arch_dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle,
> size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
> order = get_order(size);
>
> - page = alloc_pages(flag, order);
> + page = alloc_pages(flag | GFP_ZERO, order);
> if (!page)
> return NULL;

There's second implementation below, which calls __get_free_pages() and
does an explicit memset(). As __get_free_pages() calls alloc_pages(), perhaps
it makes sense to replace the memset() by GFP_ZERO, to increase consistency?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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