Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753457Ab3HVDsW (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:48:22 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40851 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753402Ab3HVDsU (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:48:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20130821.204819.740022331426748929.davem@davemloft.net> To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us, j.dumon@option.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hso: Fix stack corruption on some architectures From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20130821162447.GC14364@kroah.com> References: <1377074599.4530.9.camel@chimera> <20130821162447.GC14364@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.1 (shards.monkeyblade.net [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1214 Lines: 22 From: Greg KH 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] guys, are you sure it's not "DMA off stack" case? >> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:28:35 PM PDT] it's a known stack corruptor on non-coherent arches >> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:31:48 PM PDT] headless: for usb/ehci? >> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:34:11 PM PDT] headless: explain >> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:35:38 PM PDT] 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] and EHCI uses DMA on control xfers (as well as all the others) >> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/