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authorSteve Markgraf <steve@steve-m.de>2018-10-07 01:16:07 +0200
committerSteve Markgraf <steve@steve-m.de>2018-10-07 01:25:07 +0200
commitf68bb2fa772ad94f58c59babd78353667570630b (patch)
treeb9d1c4c2d566737f77d8f3c983fe1e1dd30dc855
parentc4452b6d5a20cd00272fd5ca601c975a5599117f (diff)
lib: Add workaround for Linux usbfs mmap() bug
The Linux Kernel has a bug on ARM/ARM64 systems where the USB CMA memory is incorrectly mapped to userspace, breaking zerocopy. When the Kernel allocates the memory, it clears it with memset(). If the mapping worked correctly, we should have zeroed out buffers, if it doesn't, we get random Kernel memory. We now check for this, and fall back to buffers in userspace if that's the case. Signed-off-by: Steve Markgraf <steve@steve-m.de>
-rw-r--r--src/librtlsdr.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/librtlsdr.c b/src/librtlsdr.c
index 433ed5b..89ec903 100644
--- a/src/librtlsdr.c
+++ b/src/librtlsdr.c
@@ -1755,11 +1755,26 @@ static int _rtlsdr_alloc_async_buffers(rtlsdr_dev_t *dev)
for (i = 0; i < dev->xfer_buf_num; ++i) {
dev->xfer_buf[i] = libusb_dev_mem_alloc(dev->devh, dev->xfer_buf_len);
- if (!dev->xfer_buf[i]) {
+ if (dev->xfer_buf[i]) {
+ /* Check if Kernel usbfs mmap() bug is present: if the
+ * mapping is correct, the buffers point to memory that
+ * was memset to 0 by the Kernel, otherwise, they point
+ * to random memory. We check if the buffers are zeroed
+ * and otherwise fall back to buffers in userspace.
+ */
+ if (dev->xfer_buf[i][0] || memcmp(dev->xfer_buf[i],
+ dev->xfer_buf[i] + 1,
+ dev->xfer_buf_len - 1)) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Detected Kernel usbfs mmap() "
+ "bug, falling back to buffers "
+ "in userspace\n");
+ dev->use_zerocopy = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+ } else {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to allocate zero-copy "
"buffer for transfer %d\nFalling "
"back to buffers in userspace\n", i);
-
dev->use_zerocopy = 0;
break;
}