linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix stack corruption on some architectures

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Message-ID: <52129CD4.1060200@cogentembedded.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 02:31:48 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@...pelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
CC:	Jan Dumon <j.dumon@...ion.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix stack corruption on some architectures

Hello.

On 08/20/2013 12:37 AM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> There is no need to get an interface specification if we know it's the
> wrong one; trivial change.

    Is it related to stack corruption? If not, it's asking to be in a separate 
patch.

> The big thing, though, was explained in the
> #mipslinux IRC channel:
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:28:21 PM PDT] <headless> guys, are you sure it's not "DMA off stack" case?
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:28:35 PM PDT] <headless> it's a known stack corruptor on non-coherent arches
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:31:48 PM PDT] <DonkeyHotei> headless: for usb/ehci?
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:34:11 PM PDT] <DonkeyHotei> headless: explain
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:35:38 PM PDT] <headless> usb_control_msg() (or other such func) should not use buffer on stack. DMA from/to stack is prohibited
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:35:58 PM PDT] <headless> and EHCI uses DMA on control xfers (as well as all the others)

    That headless was me. :-)

> Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@...pelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>

WBR, Sergei

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