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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c, branch linux-rolling-stable</title>
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<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>types: reuse common phys_vec type instead of DMABUF open‑coded variant</title>
<updated>2026-01-19T17:13:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Romanovsky</name>
<email>leonro@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-07T09:14:14+00:00</published>
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After commit fcf463b92a08 ("types: move phys_vec definition to common header"),
we can use the shared phys_vec type instead of the DMABUF‑specific
dma_buf_phys_vec, which duplicated the same structure and semantics.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260107-convert-to-pvec-v1-1-6e3ab8079708@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex@shazbot.org&gt;
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After commit fcf463b92a08 ("types: move phys_vec definition to common header"),
we can use the shared phys_vec type instead of the DMABUF‑specific
dma_buf_phys_vec, which duplicated the same structure and semantics.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260107-convert-to-pvec-v1-1-6e3ab8079708@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex@shazbot.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dma-buf: fix integer overflow in fill_sg_entry() for buffers &gt;= 8GiB</title>
<updated>2025-11-28T17:06:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Mastro</name>
<email>amastro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-26T01:11:18+00:00</published>
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fill_sg_entry() splits large DMA buffers into multiple scatter-gather
entries, each holding up to UINT_MAX bytes. When calculating the DMA
address for entries beyond the second one, the expression (i * UINT_MAX)
causes integer overflow due to 32-bit arithmetic.

This manifests when the input arg length &gt;= 8 GiB results in looping for
i &gt;= 2.

Fix by casting i to dma_addr_t before multiplication.

Fixes: 3aa31a8bb11e ("dma-buf: provide phys_vec to scatter-gather mapping routine")
Signed-off-by: Alex Mastro &lt;amastro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leon@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251125-dma-buf-overflow-v1-1-b70ea1e6c4ba@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex@shazbot.org&gt;
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fill_sg_entry() splits large DMA buffers into multiple scatter-gather
entries, each holding up to UINT_MAX bytes. When calculating the DMA
address for entries beyond the second one, the expression (i * UINT_MAX)
causes integer overflow due to 32-bit arithmetic.

This manifests when the input arg length &gt;= 8 GiB results in looping for
i &gt;= 2.

Fix by casting i to dma_addr_t before multiplication.

Fixes: 3aa31a8bb11e ("dma-buf: provide phys_vec to scatter-gather mapping routine")
Signed-off-by: Alex Mastro &lt;amastro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leon@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251125-dma-buf-overflow-v1-1-b70ea1e6c4ba@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex@shazbot.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dma-buf: provide phys_vec to scatter-gather mapping routine</title>
<updated>2025-11-20T19:02:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Romanovsky</name>
<email>leonro@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T09:28:25+00:00</published>
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Add dma_buf_phys_vec_to_sgt() and dma_buf_free_sgt() helpers to convert
an array of MMIO physical address ranges into scatter-gather tables with
proper DMA mapping.

These common functions are a starting point and support any PCI
drivers creating mappings from their BAR's MMIO addresses. VFIO is one
case, as shortly will be RDMA. We can review existing DRM drivers to
refactor them separately. We hope this will evolve into routines to
help common DRM that include mixed CPU and MMIO mappings.

Compared to the dma_map_resource() abuse this implementation handles
the complicated PCI P2P scenarios properly, especially when an IOMMU
is enabled:

 - Direct bus address mapping without IOVA allocation for
   PCI_P2PDMA_MAP_BUS_ADDR, using pci_p2pdma_bus_addr_map(). This
   happens if the IOMMU is enabled but the PCIe switch ACS flags allow
   transactions to avoid the host bridge.

   Further, this handles the slightly obscure, case of MMIO with a
   phys_addr_t that is different from the physical BAR programming
   (bus offset). The phys_addr_t is converted to a dma_addr_t and
   accommodates this effect. This enables certain real systems to
   work, especially on ARM platforms.

 - Mapping through host bridge with IOVA allocation and DMA_ATTR_MMIO
   attribute for MMIO memory regions (PCI_P2PDMA_MAP_THRU_HOST_BRIDGE).
   This happens when the IOMMU is enabled and the ACS flags are forcing
   all traffic to the IOMMU - ie for virtualization systems.

 - Cases where P2P is not supported through the host bridge/CPU. The
   P2P subsystem is the proper place to detect this and block it.

Helper functions fill_sg_entry() and calc_sg_nents() handle the
scatter-gather table construction, splitting large regions into
UINT_MAX-sized chunks to fit within sg-&gt;length field limits.

Since the physical address based DMA API forbids use of the CPU list
of the scatterlist this will produce a mangled scatterlist that has
a fully zero-length and NULL'd CPU list. The list is 0 length,
all the struct page pointers are NULL and zero sized. This is stronger
and more robust than the existing mangle_sg_table() technique. It is
a future project to migrate DMABUF as a subsystem away from using
scatterlist for this data structure.

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolin Chen &lt;nicolinc@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alex Mastro &lt;amastro@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen &lt;nicolinc@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ankit Agrawal &lt;ankita@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251120-dmabuf-vfio-v9-6-d7f71607f371@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex@shazbot.org&gt;
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Add dma_buf_phys_vec_to_sgt() and dma_buf_free_sgt() helpers to convert
an array of MMIO physical address ranges into scatter-gather tables with
proper DMA mapping.

These common functions are a starting point and support any PCI
drivers creating mappings from their BAR's MMIO addresses. VFIO is one
case, as shortly will be RDMA. We can review existing DRM drivers to
refactor them separately. We hope this will evolve into routines to
help common DRM that include mixed CPU and MMIO mappings.

Compared to the dma_map_resource() abuse this implementation handles
the complicated PCI P2P scenarios properly, especially when an IOMMU
is enabled:

 - Direct bus address mapping without IOVA allocation for
   PCI_P2PDMA_MAP_BUS_ADDR, using pci_p2pdma_bus_addr_map(). This
   happens if the IOMMU is enabled but the PCIe switch ACS flags allow
   transactions to avoid the host bridge.

   Further, this handles the slightly obscure, case of MMIO with a
   phys_addr_t that is different from the physical BAR programming
   (bus offset). The phys_addr_t is converted to a dma_addr_t and
   accommodates this effect. This enables certain real systems to
   work, especially on ARM platforms.

 - Mapping through host bridge with IOVA allocation and DMA_ATTR_MMIO
   attribute for MMIO memory regions (PCI_P2PDMA_MAP_THRU_HOST_BRIDGE).
   This happens when the IOMMU is enabled and the ACS flags are forcing
   all traffic to the IOMMU - ie for virtualization systems.

 - Cases where P2P is not supported through the host bridge/CPU. The
   P2P subsystem is the proper place to detect this and block it.

Helper functions fill_sg_entry() and calc_sg_nents() handle the
scatter-gather table construction, splitting large regions into
UINT_MAX-sized chunks to fit within sg-&gt;length field limits.

Since the physical address based DMA API forbids use of the CPU list
of the scatterlist this will produce a mangled scatterlist that has
a fully zero-length and NULL'd CPU list. The list is 0 length,
all the struct page pointers are NULL and zero sized. This is stronger
and more robust than the existing mangle_sg_table() technique. It is
a future project to migrate DMABUF as a subsystem away from using
scatterlist for this data structure.

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolin Chen &lt;nicolinc@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alex Mastro &lt;amastro@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen &lt;nicolinc@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ankit Agrawal &lt;ankita@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251120-dmabuf-vfio-v9-6-d7f71607f371@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex@shazbot.org&gt;
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