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arm64: dma-mapping: always clear allocated buffers

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PATCH 1/1 arm64: dma-mapping: always clear allocated buffers

From: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>

[Stable backport of 6829e274a623 to 3.14.y]

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.

Cc <[email protected]> # v3.14 only
[will: ported to 3.14.y]
---
 arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c +1 -2
index 3974881388bb..b76159a153a5 100644
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ static void *arm64_swiotlb_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);
+		memset(addr, 0, size);
 		return addr;
 	} else {
 		return swiotlb_alloc_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, flags);
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