linux-kernel - Re: [ 45/82] USB: EHCI: dont check DMA values in QH overlays

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Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:31:28 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ 45/82] USB: EHCI: dont check DMA values in QH overlays

On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 11:27 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 04:22 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > 3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> > > 
> > > commit feca7746d5d9e84b105a613b7f3b6ad00d327372 upstream.
> > > 
> > > This patch (as1661) fixes a rather obscure bug in ehci-hcd.  In a
> > > couple of places, the driver compares the DMA address stored in a QH's
> > > overlay region with the address of a particular qTD, in order to see
> > > whether that qTD is the one currently being processed by the hardware.
> > > (If it is then the status in the QH's overlay region is more
> > > up-to-date than the status in the qTD, and if it isn't then the
> > > overlay's value needs to be adjusted when the QH is added back to the
> > > active schedule.)
> > > 
> > > However, DMA address in the overlay region isn't always valid.  It
> > > sometimes will contain a stale value, which may happen by coincidence
> > > to be equal to a qTD's DMA address.  Instead of checking the DMA
> > > address, we should check whether the overlay region is active and
> > > valid.  The patch tests the ACTIVE bit in the overlay, and clears this
> > > bit when the overlay becomes invalid (which happens when the
> > > currently-executing URB is unlinked).
> > > 
> > > This is the second part of a fix for the regression reported at:
> > > 
> > > 	https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088733
> > 
> > Alan, the first part (commit 6402c796d3b4 aka as1660) didn't apply and I
> > couldn't see how to adapt it for 3.2.  Does this second part have any
> > value without the first?  Or, if you could provide a backport of the
> > first part, that would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Without the first part, the second part can actually be dangerous.  
> Under the circumstances, I think it is best to apply neither.

Thanks, I've dropped this.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ...
and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds

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