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

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Message-Id: <20090121.125638.152447234.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:56:38 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ceggers@....de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Resubmit] [PATCH] usb/mcs7830: Don't use buffers from stack
 for USB transfers

From: Christian Eggers <ceggers@....de>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:48:30 +0100

> mcs7830_set_reg() and mcs7830_get_reg() are called with buffers
> from stack which must not be used directly for USB transfers.
> This causes corruption of the stack particulary on non x86
> architectures because DMA may be used for these transfers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers <christian.eggers@...hrein.de>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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