usb: usbfs: correct kernel->user page attribute mismatch

On some architectures (e.g. arm64) requests for
IO coherent memory may use non-cachable attributes if
the relevant device isn't cache coherent. If these
pages are then remapped into userspace as cacheable,
they may not be coherent with the non-cacheable mappings.

In particular this happens with libusb, when it attempts
to create zero-copy buffers for use by rtl-sdr
(https://github.com/osmocom/rtl-sdr/). On low end arm
devices with non-coherent USB ports, the application will
be unexpectedly killed, while continuing to work fine on
arm machines with coherent USB controllers.

This bug has been discovered/reported a few times over
the last few years. In the case of rtl-sdr a compile time
option to enable/disable zero copy was implemented to
work around it.

Rather than relaying on application specific workarounds,
dma_mmap_coherent() can be used instead of remap_pfn_range().
The page cache/etc attributes will then be correctly set in
userspace to match the kernel mapping.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200504201348.1183246-1-jeremy.linton@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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