3.19.8-ckt1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>

commit 6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5 upstream.

Buffers allocated by dma_alloc_coherent() are always zeroed on Alpha,
ARM (32bit), MIPS, PowerPC, x86/x86_64 and probably other architectures.
It turned out that some drivers rely on this 'feature'. Allocated buffer
might be also exposed to userspace with dma_mmap() call, so clearing it
is desired from security point of view to avoid exposing random memory
to userspace. This patch unifies dma_alloc_coherent() behavior on ARM64
architecture with other implementations by unconditionally zeroing
allocated buffer.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
index df34a70..6efbb52 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ static void *__alloc_from_pool(size_t size, struct page 
**ret_page, gfp_t flags)
 
                *ret_page = phys_to_page(phys);
                ptr = (void *)val;
-               if (flags & __GFP_ZERO)
-                       memset(ptr, 0, size);
+               memset(ptr, 0, size);
        }
 
        return ptr;
@@ -113,8 +112,7 @@ static void *__dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, 
size_t size,
 
                *dma_handle = phys_to_dma(dev, page_to_phys(page));
                addr = page_address(page);
-               if (flags & __GFP_ZERO)
-                       memset(addr, 0, size);
+               memset(addr, 0, size);
                return addr;
        } else {
                return swiotlb_alloc_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, flags);
-- 
1.9.1

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