Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] tpm_tis_spi: Use DMA-safe memory

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:27:43AM +0200, Alexander Steffen wrote:
> The documentation says that DMA-safe memory is required for SPI transfers.
> The I/O buffers passed in by the caller can be allocated anywhere,
> including on the stack, which is not DMA-safe. So the data needs to be
> copied to separate, DMA-safe buffers.
> 
> We did not see any DMA-related issues on our test systems, even without
> DMA-safe buffers. But this might simply be due to the fact that the SPI
> transfer size is rather small, so our systems do not bother to set up DMA
> transfers. Other systems might do so.
> 
> v2:
> - Updated commit message with more explanations.
> 
> v3:
> - Split into two patches, one for making the buffers DMA-safe and another
>   for using only a single buffer.
> 
> Alexander Steffen (2):
>   tpm_tis_spi: Use DMA-safe memory for SPI transfers
>   tpm_tis_spi: Use a single buffer for SPI transfers
> 
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

Needs to be CC linux-kernel and linux-security-module and tested-by.

/Jarkko

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