Merging upstream version 6.7.7.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
index 2048194a03..33d942615b 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
@@ -1309,11 +1309,13 @@ phys_addr_t swiotlb_tbl_map_single(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t orig_addr,
 		pool->slots[index + i].orig_addr = slot_addr(orig_addr, i);
 	tlb_addr = slot_addr(pool->start, index) + offset;
 	/*
-	 * When dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE we could omit the copy from the orig
-	 * to the tlb buffer, if we knew for sure the device will
-	 * overwrite the entire current content. But we don't. Thus
-	 * unconditional bounce may prevent leaking swiotlb content (i.e.
-	 * kernel memory) to user-space.
+	 * When the device is writing memory, i.e. dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE, copy
+	 * the original buffer to the TLB buffer before initiating DMA in order
+	 * to preserve the original's data if the device does a partial write,
+	 * i.e. if the device doesn't overwrite the entire buffer.  Preserving
+	 * the original data, even if it's garbage, is necessary to match
+	 * hardware behavior.  Use of swiotlb is supposed to be transparent,
+	 * i.e. swiotlb must not corrupt memory by clobbering unwritten bytes.
 	 */
 	swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
 	return tlb_addr;