From 399f1e30ac17b77d383444aff480c7390f5adf2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Ira W. Snyder" Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:15:27 -0700 Subject: kfifo: fix scatterlist usage The kfifo_dma family of functions use sg_mark_end() on the last element in their scatterlist. This forces use of a fresh scatterlist for each DMA operation, which makes recycling a single scatterlist impossible. Change the behavior of the kfifo_dma functions to match the usage of the dma_map_sg function. This means that users must respect the returned nents value. The sample code is updated to reflect the change. This bug is trivial to cause: call kfifo_dma_in_prepare() such that it prepares a scatterlist with a single entry comprising the whole fifo. This is the case when you map the entirety of a newly created empty fifo. This causes the setup_sgl() function to mark the first scatterlist entry as the end of the chain, no matter what comes after it. Afterwards, add and remove some data from the fifo such that another call to kfifo_dma_in_prepare() will create two scatterlist entries. It returns nents=2. However, due to the previous sg_mark_end() call, sg_is_last() will now return true for the first scatterlist element. This causes the sample code to print a single scatterlist element when it should print two. By removing the call to sg_mark_end(), we make the API as similar as possible to the DMA mapping API. All users are required to respect the returned nents. Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder Cc: Stefani Seibold Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kfifo.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/kfifo.c') diff --git a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c index 6b5580c57644..01a0700e873f 100644 --- a/kernel/kfifo.c +++ b/kernel/kfifo.c @@ -365,8 +365,6 @@ static unsigned int setup_sgl(struct __kfifo *fifo, struct scatterlist *sgl, n = setup_sgl_buf(sgl, fifo->data + off, nents, l); n += setup_sgl_buf(sgl + n, fifo->data, nents - n, len - l); - if (n) - sg_mark_end(sgl + n - 1); return n; } -- cgit v1.2.2