netdev - Re: [PATCH] usb/mcs7830: Don't use buffers from stack for USB transfers

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Message-Id: <200901210037.51622.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:37:51 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ceggers@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb/mcs7830: Don't use buffers from stack for USB transfers

On Wednesday 21 January 2009, David Miller wrote:
> There seems to be a large precendence for this in other USB drivers,
> both for networking and storage.  Probably a mutex or other locking
> hierarchy issue.
> 
> Really, I would just apply this patch as-is.  It works, it's pretty
> clean, and every retort has been a misunderstanding or extreme
> nit-picking :-)

Ok, fair enough. Please add my Acked-by then.

On a related topic, can we put something in place that can check for
this error at run-time, like a WARN_ON(is_kernel_stack(addr)) in
dma_map_single?
Since I only copied this code from elsewhere, I would suspect that
there are lots of similar bugs that never get found on common hardware
otherwise.

	Arnd <><
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