From: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] misc/genwqe: ensure zero initialization
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 20:09:40 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1609122005050.1851@schleppi> (raw)
Genwqe uses dma_alloc_coherent and depends on zero initialized memory. On
one occasion it ueses an explicit memset on others it uses un-initialized
memory.
This bug was covered because some archs actually return zero initialized
memory when using dma_alloc_coherent but this is by no means guaranteed.
Simply switch to dma_zalloc_coherent.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c | 2 --
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c
index 353ee0c..ddfeefe 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c
@@ -1048,8 +1048,6 @@ static int setup_ddcb_queue(struct genwqe_dev *cd, struct ddcb_queue *queue)
"[%s] **err: could not allocate DDCB **\n", __func__);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- memset(queue->ddcb_vaddr, 0, queue_size);
-
queue->ddcb_req = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ddcb_requ *) *
queue->ddcb_max, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!queue->ddcb_req) {
diff --git a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
index 222367c..8a679ec 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ void *__genwqe_alloc_consistent(struct genwqe_dev *cd, size_t size,
if (get_order(size) > MAX_ORDER)
return NULL;
- return dma_alloc_coherent(&cd->pci_dev->dev, size, dma_handle,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ return dma_zalloc_coherent(&cd->pci_dev->dev, size, dma_handle,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
}
void __genwqe_free_consistent(struct genwqe_dev *cd, size_t size,
--
2.5.5
next reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 18:09 Sebastian Ott [this message]
2016-09-22 13:19 ` [PATCH] misc/genwqe: ensure zero initialization Frank Haverkamp
2016-09-23 10:06 ` Sebastian Ott
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