[PATCH 4/4] Talitos: fix the issue of dma memory leak

Liu Qiang-B32616 B32616 at freescale.com
Wed Jul 11 17:18:05 EST 2012


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geanta Neag Horia Ioan-B05471
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:09 PM
> To: Liu Qiang-B32616
> Cc: linux-crypto at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; Li Yang-
> R58472; Phillips Kim-R1AAHA; Herbert Xu; David S. Miller
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/4] Talitos: fix the issue of dma memory leak
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:00:14 +0300, Qiang Liu <qiang.liu at freescale.com>
> wrote:
> > An error will be happened when test with mass data:
> > "DMA-API: device driver tries to sync DMA memory it has not
> > allocated";
> > "DMA-API: debugging out of memory - disabling"
> > dma mapping memory of request->desc is not released by right device,
> > it should be private->dev but not dev;
> >
> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Qiang Liu <qiang.liu at freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/crypto/talitos.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git
> > a/drivers/crypto/talitos.c b/drivers/crypto/talitos.c index
> > 81f8497..a7da48c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/crypto/talitos.c
> > +++ b/drivers/crypto/talitos.c
> > @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static void flush_channel(struct device *dev, int
> > ch, int error, int reset_ch)
> >  			else
> >  				status = error;
> > -		dma_unmap_single(dev, request->dma_desc,
> > +		 dma_unmap_single(priv->dev, request->dma_desc,
> >  				 sizeof(struct talitos_desc),
> >  				 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> 
> Are you sure this fix applies to the upstream version of talitos?
> (i.e. have you encountered the error while running on cryptodev.git ?)
> 
I found it on our own git, I'm going to test it. I will send the result later.
Thanks.

> Looks to me this is a fix for the not-upstreamed-yet NAPI patch (which
> needs to be reworked according to Dave's feedback).
> 
> When you respin the patch series, consider removing this one.
Thanks for your mention, I will remove it if I cannot reproduce it.

> Cheers,
> Horia
> 




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