[PATCH 1/2] rust: dma: remove DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING from public attrs

Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-21T17:27:54Z

When DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING is passed to dma_alloc_attrs(), the
returned CPU address is not a pointer to the allocated memory but an
opaque handle (e.g. struct page *).

Coherent<T> (or CoherentAllocation<T> respectively) stores this value as
NonNull<T> and exposes methods that dereference it and even modify its
contents.

Remove the flag from the public attrs module such that drivers cannot
pass it to Coherent<T> (or CoherentAllocation<T> respectively) in the
first place.

Instead DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING can be supported with an additional
opaque type (e.g. CoherentHandle) which does not provide access to the
allocated memory.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ad2907b4e308 ("rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction")
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
---
rust/kernel/dma.rs | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/dma.rs b/rust/kernel/dma.rs
index 6d2bec52806b..9e0c9ff91cba 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/dma.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/dma.rs
@@ -264,9 +264,6 @@ pub mod attrs {
/// Specifies that writes to the mapping may be buffered to improve performance.
pub const DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE);

- /// Lets the platform to avoid creating a kernel virtual mapping for the allocated buffer.
- pub const DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING);
-
/// Allows platform code to skip synchronization of the CPU cache for the given buffer assuming
/// that it has been already transferred to 'device' domain.
pub const DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC: Attrs = Attrs(bindings::DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
--
2.53.0