linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] hso: Fix stack corruption on some architectures

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Message-Id: <20130821.204819.740022331426748929.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	daniel@...pelevich.san-francisco.ca.us, 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

From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:24:47 -0700

> 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>

Applied.
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