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Message-ID: <20130821162447.GC14364@kroah.com> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:24:47 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@...pelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> Cc: j.dumon@...ion.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hso: Fix stack corruption on some architectures On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 01:43:19AM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > As Sergei Shtylyov 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) > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@...pelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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