1. 06 May, 2016 1 commit
    • Haggai Abramovsky's avatar
      net/mlx4: Avoid wrong virtual mappings · 73898db0
      Haggai Abramovsky authored
      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: default avatarHaggai Abramovsky <hagaya@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarSinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      73898db0
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