Commit a92a43a1 authored by Marek Szyprowski's avatar Marek Szyprowski Committed by Luis Henriques

arm64: dma-mapping: always clear allocated buffers

commit 6829e274 upstream.

Buffers allocated by dma_alloc_coherent() are always zeroed on Alpha,
ARM (32bit), MIPS, PowerPC, x86/x86_64 and probably other architectures.
It turned out that some drivers rely on this 'feature'. Allocated buffer
might be also exposed to userspace with dma_mmap() call, so clearing it
is desired from security point of view to avoid exposing random memory
to userspace. This patch unifies dma_alloc_coherent() behavior on ARM64
architecture with other implementations by unconditionally zeroing
allocated buffer.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - dropped changes to __alloc_from_pool() which doesn't exist in 3.16 ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
parent cf62a983
......@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ static void *__dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
*dma_handle = phys_to_dma(dev, page_to_phys(page));
addr = page_address(page);
if (flags & __GFP_ZERO)
memset(addr, 0, size);
return addr;
} else {
......
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