linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] PCI: hv: Allocate physically contiguous hypercall params buffer

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Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:19:42 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Ajay Kaher <akaher@...are.com>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] PCI: hv: Allocate physically contiguous hypercall
 params buffer

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 02:17:16AM +0530, Ajay Kaher wrote:
> hv_do_hypercall() assumes that we pass a segment from a physically
> contiguous buffer.  A buffer allocated on the stack may not work if
> CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y is set.
> 
> Use kmalloc() to allocate this buffer.
> 

Since you're going to need to resend this anyway, can you add in the
commit message what this looks like from a user perspective?  Presumably
it's an occasional crash?

regards,
dan carpenter