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Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: dma-mapping: Do not leave an invalid area->pages pointer in dma_common_contiguous_remap()

From Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: dma-mapping: Do not leave an invalid area->pages pointer in dma_common_contiguous_remap()
Date 2017-05-03 17:20 +0200
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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 03:57:48PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The dma_common_pages_remap() function allocates a vm_struct object and
> initialises the pages pointer to value passed as argument. However, when
> this function is called dma_common_contiguous_remap(), the pages array
> is only temporarily allocated, being freed shortly after
> dma_common_contiguous_remap() returns. Architecture code checking the
> validity of an area->pages pointer would incorrectly dereference already
> freed pointers. This has been exposed by the arm64 commit 44176bb38fa4
> ("arm64: Add support for DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS to IOMMU").
> 
> Fixes: 513510ddba96 ("common: dma-mapping: introduce common remapping functions")
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Reported-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> ---
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Please merge this patch via your tree (and therefore I haven't added
> your ack). Thanks.

Ok, will queue it up after 4.12-rc1 is out.

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH v2] drivers: dma-mapping: Do not leave an invalid area->pages pointer in dma_common_contiguous_remap() Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2017-05-03 17:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: dma-mapping: Do not leave an invalid  area->pages pointer in dma_common_contiguous_remap() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-05-03 17:20 +0200

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