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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-28 21:37:05 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-04-08 15:24:13 +0300
commit7007c894631cf43041dcfa0da7142bbaa7eb673c (patch)
tree441b49b84f38eaf493046f765576ab4deeb3e323 /Documentation
parent63351e2e13625435843f901c8aa14751e09b6f45 (diff)
downloadlinux-7007c894631cf43041dcfa0da7142bbaa7eb673c.tar.xz
Reinstate some of "swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE""
commit 901c7280ca0d5e2b4a8929fbe0bfb007ac2a6544 upstream. Halil Pasic points out [1] that the full revert of that commit (revert in bddac7c1e02b), and that a partial revert that only reverts the problematic case, but still keeps some of the cleanups is probably better.  And that partial revert [2] had already been verified by Oleksandr Natalenko to also fix the issue, I had just missed that in the long discussion. So let's reinstate the cleanups from commit aa6f8dcbab47 ("swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE""), and effectively only revert the part that caused problems. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220328013731.017ae3e3.pasic@linux.ibm.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220324055732.GB12078@lst.de/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4386660.LvFx2qVVIh@natalenko.name/ [3] Suggested-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
index 17706dc91ec9..1887d92e8e92 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst
@@ -130,11 +130,3 @@ accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged
subsystem that the buffer is fully accessible at the elevated privilege
level (and ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at the
lesser-privileged levels).
-
-DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE
-------------------
-
-This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected to
-overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any of the
-previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows bounce-buffering
-implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers.