From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751674AbeC0INF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2018 04:13:05 -0400 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:47302 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750937AbeC0INC (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2018 04:13:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:12:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Sebastian Ott X-X-Sender: sebott@schleppi To: Christoph Hellwig , Jesper Nilsson , Geert Uytterhoeven cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: dma_zalloc_coherent broken with 57bf5a8963f80fb3828c46c3e3a5b2dd790e09a7 User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01) Organization: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22IBM_Deutschland_Research_&_Development_GmbH?= =?ISO-8859-15?Q?_=2F_Vorsitzende_des_Aufsichtsrats=3A_Martina?= =?ISO-8859-15?Q?_Koederitz_Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrung=3A_Dirk_Wittkopp?= =?ISO-8859-15?Q?_Sitz_der_Gesellschaft=3A_B=F6blingen_=2F_Reg?= =?ISO-8859-15?Q?istergericht=3A_Amtsgericht_Stuttgart=2C_HRB_2432?= =?ISO-8859-15?Q?94=22?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18032708-0044-0000-0000-00000540439F X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18032708-0045-0000-0000-0000287F5DA7 Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2018-03-27_04:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=3 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1709140000 definitions=main-1803270084 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, commit 57bf5a8963f80fb3828c46c3e3a5b2dd790e09a7 broke usage of dma allocations specifying __GFP_ZERO by silently removing that flag. Why should "the memory returned [] always be zeroed."? Regards, Sebastian