On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:00:21AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> struct sg_table is a common structure used for describing a memory
> buffer. It consists of a scatterlist with memory pages and DMA addresses
> (sgl entry), as well as the number of scatterlist entries: CPU pages
> (orig_nents entry) and DMA mapped pages (nents entry).
>
> It turned out that it was a common mistake to misuse nents and orig_nents
> entries, calling DMA-mapping functions with a wrong number of entries or
> ignoring the number of mapped entries returned by the dma_map_sg
> function.
>
> To avoid such issues, lets introduce a common wrappers operating directly
> on the struct sg_table objects, which take care of the proper use of
> the nents and orig_nents entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprow...@samsung.com>
> ---
> For more information, see '[PATCH v4 00/38] DRM: fix struct sg_table nents
> vs. orig_nents misuse' thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20200512085710.14688-1-m.szyprow...@samsung.com/T/
> ---
> include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 79
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> index b43116a..88f01cc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> @@ -609,6 +609,85 @@ static inline void
> dma_sync_single_range_for_device(struct device *dev,
> return dma_sync_single_for_device(dev, addr + offset, size, dir);
> }
>
> +/**
> + * dma_map_sgtable - Map the given buffer for the DMA operations
> + * @dev: The device to perform a DMA operation
> + * @sgt: The sg_table object describing the buffer
> + * @dir: DMA direction
> + * @attrs: Optional DMA attributes for the map operation
> + *
> + * Maps a buffer described by a scatterlist stored in the given sg_table
> + * object for the @dir DMA operation by the @dev device. After success
> + * the ownership for the buffer is transferred to the DMA domain. One has
> + * to call dma_sync_sgtable_for_cpu() or dma_unmap_sgtable() to move the
> + * ownership of the buffer back to the CPU domain before touching the
> + * buffer by the CPU.
> + * Returns 0 on success or -EINVAL on error during mapping the buffer.
> + */
> +static inline int dma_map_sgtable(struct device *dev, struct sg_table *sgt,
> + enum dma_data_direction dir, unsigned long attrs)
> +{
> + int n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sgt->sgl, sgt->orig_nents, dir, attrs);
> +
> + if (n > 0) {
> + sgt->nents = n;
> + return 0;
> + }
> + return -EINVAL;
Nit: code tend to be a tad easier to read if the the exceptional
condition is inside the branch block, so:
if (n <= 0)
return -EINVAL;
sgt->nents = n;
return 0;
Otherwise this looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
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