[PATCH v4 33/38] staging: tegra-vde: fix common struct sg_table related issues

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Tue May 12 09:00:53 UTC 2020


The Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt states that the dma_map_sg() function
returns the number of the created entries in the DMA address space.
However the subsequent calls to the dma_sync_sg_for_{device,cpu}() and
dma_unmap_sg must be called with the original number of the entries
passed to the dma_map_sg().

struct sg_table is a common structure used for describing a non-contiguous
memory buffer, used commonly in the DRM and graphics subsystems. It
consists of a scatterlist with memory pages and DMA addresses (sgl entry),
as well as the number of scatterlist entries: CPU pages (orig_nents entry)
and DMA mapped pages (nents entry).

It turned out that it was a common mistake to misuse nents and orig_nents
entries, calling DMA-mapping functions with a wrong number of entries or
ignoring the number of mapped entries returned by the dma_map_sg()
function.

To avoid such issues, lets use a common dma-mapping wrappers operating
directly on the struct sg_table objects and use scatterlist page
iterators where possible. This, almost always, hides references to the
nents and orig_nents entries, making the code robust, easier to follow
and copy/paste safe.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
---
For more information, see '[PATCH v4 00/38] DRM: fix struct sg_table nents
vs. orig_nents misuse' thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20200512085710.14688-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com/T/
---
 drivers/staging/media/tegra-vde/iommu.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/tegra-vde/iommu.c b/drivers/staging/media/tegra-vde/iommu.c
index 6af863d..adf8dc7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/tegra-vde/iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/tegra-vde/iommu.c
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ int tegra_vde_iommu_map(struct tegra_vde *vde,
 
 	addr = iova_dma_addr(&vde->iova, iova);
 
-	size = iommu_map_sg(vde->domain, addr, sgt->sgl, sgt->nents,
-			    IOMMU_READ | IOMMU_WRITE);
+	size = iommu_map_sgtable(vde->domain, addr, sgt,
+				 IOMMU_READ | IOMMU_WRITE);
 	if (!size) {
 		__free_iova(&vde->iova, iova);
 		return -ENXIO;
-- 
1.9.1



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