[v4,1/3] drm/prime: use dma length macro when mapping sg

[Marek Szyprowski]

Hi Alex,

On 2020-03-30 15:23, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:18 AM Marek Szyprowski
> <m.szyprowski at samsung.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 2020-03-27 10:10, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>> Hi Christian,
>>>
>>> On 2020-03-27 09:11, Christian König wrote:
>>>> Am 27.03.20 um 08:54 schrieb Marek Szyprowski:
>>>>> On 2020-03-25 10:07, Shane Francis wrote:
>>>>>> As dma_map_sg can reorganize scatter-gather lists in a
>>>>>> way that can cause some later segments to be empty we should
>>>>>> always use the sg_dma_len macro to fetch the actual length.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This could now be 0 and not need to be mapped to a page or
>>>>>> address array
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Shane Francis <bigbeeshane at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl at intel.com>
>>>>> This patch landed in linux-next 20200326 and it causes a kernel
>>>>> panic on
>>>>> various Exynos SoC based boards.
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>     drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 2 +-
>>>>>>     1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>>>>> index 86d9b0e45c8c..1de2cde2277c 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
>>>>>> @@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ int drm_prime_sg_to_page_addr_arrays(struct
>>>>>> sg_table *sgt, struct page **pages,
>>>>>>            index = 0;
>>>>>>         for_each_sg(sgt->sgl, sg, sgt->nents, count) {
>>>>>> -        len = sg->length;
>>>>>> +        len = sg_dma_len(sg);
>>>>>>             page = sg_page(sg);
>>>>>>             addr = sg_dma_address(sg);
>>>>> Sorry, but this code is wrong :(
>>>> Well it is at least better than before because it makes most drivers
>>>> work correctly again.
>>> Well, I'm not sure that a half-broken fix should be considered as a
>>> fix ;)
>>>
>>> Anyway, I just got the comment from Shane, that my patch is fixing the
>>> issues with amdgpu and radeon, while still working fine for exynos, so
>>> it is indeed a proper fix.
>> Today I've noticed that this patch went to final v5.6 without even a day
>> of testing in linux-next, so v5.6 is broken on Exynos and probably a few
>> other ARM archs, which rely on the drm_prime_sg_to_page_addr_arrays
>> function.
> Please commit your patch and cc stable.

I've already did that: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/27/555

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland