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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 23:33:29 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Song Liu
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/raid6: Replace custom zero page with ZERO_PAGE
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:51:50 +0800 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> > Is there any possibility that the MD drivers will point DMA hardware at
> > the global zero page, thereby invalidating that page from CPU caches in
> > some manner?
> 
> The only spots that can hand this off to DMA are:

Cool, thanks for checking.

> crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c:                     srcs[i] = (void*)raid6_empty_zero_page;
> crypto/async_tx/async_raid6_recov.c:                            ptrs[i] = (void *) raid6_empty_zero_page;
> crypto/async_tx/async_raid6_recov.c:                            ptrs[i] = (void*)raid6_empty_zero_page;
> 
> But they all turn out to be synchronous fallback code paths that
> do not involve DMA at all.

And all three cast a pointer to a void* ;)