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: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.14+
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
*ret_page = phys_to_page(phys);
ptr = (void *)val;
- if (flags & __GFP_ZERO)
- memset(ptr, 0, size);
+ memset(ptr, 0, size);
}
return ptr;
*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);