linux/include
Haggai Abramovsky 73898db043 net/mlx4: Avoid wrong virtual mappings
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-05 23:23:05 -04:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-processor' and 'acpi-cppc' 2016-03-14 14:20:33 +01:00
asm-generic asm-generic/futex: Re-enable preemption in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() 2016-04-21 11:06:09 +02:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-03-17 11:33:45 -07:00
drm drm: Loongson-3 doesn't fully support wc memory 2016-04-22 10:24:11 +10:00
dt-bindings The clk changes for this release cycle are mostly dominated by 2016-03-23 06:06:45 -07:00
keys
kvm
linux net/mlx4: Avoid wrong virtual mappings 2016-05-05 23:23:05 -04:00
math-emu
media [media] media: vb2: Fix regression on poll() for RW mode 2016-04-25 10:21:23 -03:00
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net Merge branch '10GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue 2016-05-04 17:13:34 -04:00
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ras
rdma IB/security: Restrict use of the write() interface 2016-04-28 12:03:16 -04:00
rxrpc rxrpc: Static arrays of strings should be const char *const[] 2016-04-11 15:34:40 -04:00
scsi Merge branch 'fixes-base' into fixes 2016-04-05 06:56:47 -04:00
soc IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.6 2016-03-22 11:57:43 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda - Update BCLK also at hotplug for i915 HSW/BDW 2016-04-26 10:11:11 +02:00
target target: add a new add_wwn_groups fabrics method 2016-03-30 20:06:44 -07:00
trace perf, bpf: minimize the size of perf_trace_() tracepoint handler 2016-04-21 13:48:20 -04:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-05-04 00:52:29 -04:00
video gpu: ipu-v3: ipu-dmfc: Rename ipu_dmfc_init_channel to ipu_dmfc_config_wait4eot 2016-03-31 11:24:33 +02:00
xen xen-netback: re-import canonical netif header 2016-03-13 22:08:01 -04:00
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