Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net/mlx4: Avoid wrong virtual mappings

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Haggai Abramovsky <hagaya@mellanox.com>
Date: Wed,  4 May 2016 14:50:15 +0300

> The dma_alloc_coherent() function returns a virtual address which can
> be used for coherent access to the underlying memory.  On some
> architectures, like arm64, undefined behavior results if this memory is
> also accessed via virtual mappings that are not coherent.  Because of
> their undefined nature, operations like virt_to_page() return garbage
> when passed virtual addresses obtained from dma_alloc_coherent().  Any
> subsequent mappings via vmap() of the garbage page values are unusable
> and result in bad things like bus errors (synchronous aborts in ARM64
> speak).
> 
> The mlx4 driver contains code that does the equivalent of:
> vmap(virt_to_page(dma_alloc_coherent)), this results in an OOPs when the
> device is opened.
> 
> Prevent Ethernet driver to run this problematic code by forcing it to
> allocate contiguous memory. As for the Infiniband driver, at first we
> are trying to allocate contiguous memory, but in case of failure roll
> back to work with fragmented memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haggai Abramovsky <hagaya@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
> Reported-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> Tested-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>

Applied, thanks.