[alsa-devel] [PATCH 28/51] DMA-API: sound: fix dma mask handling in a lot of drivers

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Thu Sep 26 10:29:39 CEST 2013


At Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:25:13 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> At Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:54:25 +0100,
> Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:51:23AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > sorry for the lat response, as I've been traveling in the last weeks.
> > > 
> > > At Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:53:02 +0100,
> > > Russell King wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This code sequence is unsafe in modules:
> > > > 
> > > > static u64 mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(something);
> > > > ...
> > > > 	if (!dev->dma_mask)
> > > > 		dev->dma_mask = &mask;
> > > > 
> > > > as if a module is reloaded, the mask will be pointing at the original
> > > > module's mask address, and this can lead to oopses.  Moreover, they
> > > > all follow this with:
> > > > 
> > > > 	if (!dev->coherent_dma_mask)
> > > > 		dev->coherent_dma_mask = mask;
> > > > 
> > > > where 'mask' is the same value as the statically defined mask, and this
> > > > bypasses the architecture's check on whether the DMA mask is possible.
> > > > 
> > > > Fix these issues by using the new dma_coerce_coherent_and_mask()
> > > > function.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > > 
> > > Applied with Mark's ack now.
> > 
> > Which is a very stupid thing to do because you won't have
> > dma_coerce_coherent_and_mask() in your tree, so all these drivers
> > will fail to build for you.
> 
> Ah, silly me, I missed the very first thing.  Reverted it now...
> 
> FWIW, below is the missing piece.  Please apply it in your side if
> necessary.

Oh, and feel free to add my ack, if any:

Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>


thanks,

Takashi

> 
> 
> Takashi
> 
> ---
>  sound/soc/fsl/imx-pcm-fiq.c | 12 +++++-------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/soc/fsl/imx-pcm-fiq.c b/sound/soc/fsl/imx-pcm-fiq.c
> index 34043c5..fd5f2fb 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/fsl/imx-pcm-fiq.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/fsl/imx-pcm-fiq.c
> @@ -272,18 +272,16 @@ static int imx_pcm_preallocate_dma_buffer(struct snd_pcm *pcm, int stream)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static u64 imx_pcm_dmamask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
> -
>  static int imx_pcm_new(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd)
>  {
>  	struct snd_card *card = rtd->card->snd_card;
>  	struct snd_pcm *pcm = rtd->pcm;
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(card->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
>  
> -	if (!card->dev->dma_mask)
> -		card->dev->dma_mask = &imx_pcm_dmamask;
> -	if (!card->dev->coherent_dma_mask)
> -		card->dev->coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
>  	if (pcm->streams[SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK].substream) {
>  		ret = imx_pcm_preallocate_dma_buffer(pcm,
>  			SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK);
> -- 
> 1.8.4


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