Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18;
Date:   Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:51:44 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20200803.155144.1285440527272961526.davem@davemloft.net>
To:     baijiaju@tsinghua.edu.cn
Cc:     3chas3@gmail.com, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atm: idt77252: avoid accessing the data mapped to
 streaming DMA
From:   David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To: <20200802093340.3475-1-baijiaju@tsinghua.edu.cn>
References: <20200802093340.3475-1-baijiaju@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Date: Sun,  2 Aug 2020 17:33:40 +0800

> In queue_skb(), skb->data is mapped to streaming DMA on line 850:
>   dma_map_single(..., skb->data, ...);
> 
> Then skb->data is accessed on lines 862 and 863:
>   tbd->word_4 = (skb->data[0] << 24) | (skb->data[1] << 16) |
>            (skb->data[2] <<  8) | (skb->data[3] <<  0);
> and on lines 893 and 894:
>   tbd->word_4 = (skb->data[0] << 24) | (skb->data[1] << 16) |
>            (skb->data[2] <<  8) | (skb->data[3] <<  0);
> 
> These accesses may cause data inconsistency between CPU cache and
> hardware.
> 
> To fix this problem, the calculation result of skb->data is stored in a
> local variable before DMA mapping, and then the driver accesses this
> local variable instead of skb->data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju@tsinghua.edu.cn>

Applied.