IB/mlx5: Ensure proper synchronization accessing memory Call mlx5_ib_populate_pas() before mapping the DMA buffer to ensure the hardware reads the values written by the CPU. Found by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c index 1542412..3453580 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
@@ -680,6 +680,10 @@ err = -ENOMEM; goto error; } + + mlx5_ib_populate_pas(dev, umem, page_shift, + mr_align(mr->pas, MLX5_UMR_ALIGN), 1); + mr->dma = dma_map_single(ddev, mr_align(mr->pas, MLX5_UMR_ALIGN), size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); if (dma_mapping_error(ddev, mr->dma)) { @@ -688,9 +692,6 @@ goto error; } - mlx5_ib_populate_pas(dev, umem, page_shift, - mr_align(mr->pas, MLX5_UMR_ALIGN), 1); - memset(&wr, 0, sizeof(wr)); wr.wr_id = (u64)(unsigned long)mr; prep_umr_reg_wqe(pd, &wr, &sg, mr->dma, npages, mr->mmr.key, page_shift, virt_addr, len, access_flags);