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AndroidKernelMSM

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Marek Szyprowski authored and Will Deacon committed
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.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.14+
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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