Hi linux-media devs, this is similar to one of HCH's patches that hasn't been applied yet. The patch 7b4eeed174b7: "[media] vmalloc_sg: make sure all pages in vmalloc area are really DMA-ready" from Jun 12, 2014, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-dma-sg.c:236 videobuf_dma_init_kernel() error: 'addr' came from dma_alloc_coherent() so we can't do virt_to_phys() drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-dma-sg.c 210 static int videobuf_dma_init_kernel(struct videobuf_dmabuf *dma, int direction, 211 int nr_pages) 212 { 213 int i; 214 215 dprintk(1, "init kernel [%d pages]\n", nr_pages); 216 217 dma->direction = direction; 218 dma->vaddr_pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(*dma->vaddr_pages), 219 GFP_KERNEL); 220 if (!dma->vaddr_pages) 221 return -ENOMEM; 222 223 dma->dma_addr = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(*dma->dma_addr), GFP_KERNEL); 224 if (!dma->dma_addr) { 225 kfree(dma->vaddr_pages); 226 return -ENOMEM; 227 } 228 for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { 229 void *addr; 230 231 addr = dma_alloc_coherent(dma->dev, PAGE_SIZE, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 232 &(dma->dma_addr[i]), GFP_KERNEL); 233 if (addr == NULL) 234 goto out_free_pages; 235 236 dma->vaddr_pages[i] = virt_to_page(addr); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Apparently this isn't allowed. 237 } 238 dma->vaddr = vmap(dma->vaddr_pages, nr_pages, VM_MAP | VM_IOREMAP, 239 PAGE_KERNEL); 240 if (NULL == dma->vaddr) { 241 dprintk(1, "vmalloc_32(%d pages) failed\n", nr_pages); 242 goto out_free_pages; 243 } 244 245 dprintk(1, "vmalloc is at addr %p, size=%d\n", 246 dma->vaddr, nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT); 247 248 memset(dma->vaddr, 0, nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT); 249 dma->nr_pages = nr_pages; 250 251 return 0; 252 out_free_pages: 253 while (i > 0) { 254 void *addr; regards, dan carpenter