Revert "swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE""
This reverts commit aa6f8dcb. It turns out this breaks at least the ath9k wireless driver, and possibly others. What the ath9k driver does on packet receive is to set up the DMA transfer with: int ath_rx_init(..) .. bf->bf_buf_addr = dma_map_single(sc->dev, skb->data, common->rx_bufsize, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); and then the receive logic (through ath_rx_tasklet()) will fetch incoming packets static bool ath_edma_get_buffers(..) .. dma_sync_single_for_cpu(sc->dev, bf->bf_buf_addr, common->rx_bufsize, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); ret = ath9k_hw_process_rxdesc_edma(ah, rs, skb->data); if (ret == -EINPROGRESS) { /*let device gain the buffer again*/ dma_sync_single_for_device(sc->dev, bf->bf_buf_addr, common->rx_bufsize, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); return false; } and it's worth noting how that first DMA sync: dma_sync_single_for_cpu(..DMA_FROM_DEVICE); is there to make sure the CPU can read the DMA buffer (possibly by copying it from the bounce buffer area, or by doing some cache flush). The iommu correctly turns that into a "copy from bounce bufer" so that the driver can look at the state of the packets. In the meantime, the device may continue to write to the DMA buffer, but we at least have a snapshot of the state due to that first DMA sync. But that _second_ DMA sync: dma_sync_single_for_device(..DMA_FROM_DEVICE); is telling the DMA mapping that the CPU wasn't interested in the area because the packet wasn't there. In the case of a DMA bounce buffer, that is a no-op. Note how it's not a sync for the CPU (the "for_device()" part), and it's not a sync for data written by the CPU (the "DMA_FROM_DEVICE" part). Or rather, it _should_ be a no-op. That's what commit aa6f8dcb broke: it made the code bounce the buffer unconditionally, and changed the DMA_FROM_DEVICE to just unconditionally and illogically be DMA_TO_DEVICE. [ Side note: purely within the confines of the swiotlb driver it wasn't entirely illogical: The reason it did that odd DMA_FROM_DEVICE -> DMA_TO_DEVICE conversion thing is because inside the swiotlb driver, it uses just a swiotlb_bounce() helper that doesn't care about the whole distinction of who the sync is for - only which direction to bounce. So it took the "sync for device" to mean that the CPU must have been the one writing, and thought it meant DMA_TO_DEVICE. ] Also note how the commentary in that commit was wrong, probably due to that whole confusion, claiming that the commit makes the swiotlb code "bounce unconditionally (that is, also when dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE) in order do avoid synchronising back stale data from the swiotlb buffer" which is nonsensical for two reasons: - that "also when dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE" is nonsensical, as that was exactly when it always did - and should do - the bounce. - since this is a sync for the device (not for the CPU), we're clearly fundamentally not coping back stale data from the bounce buffers at all, because we'd be copying *to* the bounce buffers. So that commit was just very confused. It confused the direction of the synchronization (to the device, not the cpu) with the direction of the DMA (from the device). Reported-and-bisected-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Reported-by: Olha Cherevyk <olha.cherevyk@gmail.com> Cc: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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