On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:54:08PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote: > I'll admit I still never quite grasped the reason for also adding the > override to swiotlb_sync_single_for_device() in aa6f8dcbab47, but I think > by that point we were increasingly tired and confused and starting to > second-guess ourselves (well, I was, at least). I don't think it's wrong > per se, but as I said I do think it can bite anyone who's been doing > dma_sync_*() wrong but getting away with it until now. If ddbd89deb7d3 > alone turns out to work OK then I'd be inclined to try a partial revert of > just that one hunk. Agreed. Let's try that first. Oleksandr, can you try the patch below: diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c index 6db1c475ec827..6c350555e5a1c 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c @@ -701,13 +701,10 @@ void swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr, void swiotlb_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr, size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir) { - /* - * Unconditional bounce is necessary to avoid corruption on - * sync_*_for_cpu or dma_ummap_* when the device didn't overwrite - * the whole lengt of the bounce buffer. - */ - swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); - BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(dir)); + if (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL) + swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); + else + BUG_ON(dir != DMA_FROM_DEVICE); } void swiotlb_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t tlb_addr,