Re: [Bug 215890] New: Regression in 5.18: bcm5974 trackpad causes error: xhci_hcd rejecting DMA map of vmalloc memory

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:24:34AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 04.05.22 10:42, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 
> > Linux-Input developers, do you have any idea what might be causing the
> > problem outline below? It's a post 5.17 regression in mainline that was
> > reported to bugzilla.kernel.org about a week ago, but didn't even get a
> > single reply. Might be some other subsystem that is causing it, not sure.
> > 
> > On 27.04.22 00:42, bugzilla-daemon@kernel.org wrote:
> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215890
> 
> FYI, the reporter bisected this regression down to f5ff79fddf0e
> ("dma-mapping: remove CONFIG_DMA_REMAP"). CCing Christoph, who authored
> that change (I wonder if it just exposed an existing bug, but well,
> that's up for you to discuss).
> 
> Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
> 
> P.S.: As the Linux kernel's regression tracker I deal with a lot of
> reports and sometimes miss something important when writing mails like
> this. If that's the case here, don't hesitate to tell me in a public
> reply, it's in everyone's interest to set the public record straight.
> 
> #regzbot introduced: f5ff79fddf0efecca538046b5cc20fb3ded2

Well, this just uncovered an existing bug in the driver.  You can not
just dma map memory returned from dma_alloc_coherent, and this driver
would already get vmalloc memory on arm/arm64 platforms anyway, we
now just do the same on x86 as well.