Re: cdrom: use kmalloced buffers instead of buffers on stack

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Apr 22 2008, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:01:26PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >    cdrom: use kmalloced buffers instead of buffers on stack
> > >    
> > >    If cdrom commands are issued to a scsi drive in most cases the buffer 
> > >    will be
> > >    filled via dma.  This leads to bad stack corruption on non coherent 
> > >    platforms,
> > >    because the buffers are neither cache line aligned nor is the size a 
> > >    multiple
> > >    of the cache line size.  Using kmalloced buffers avoids this.
> > >    
> > >    Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >---
> > > drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c |  274 
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > > 1 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Eh... AFAICS this is only really useful in two of the cases converted.
> > 
> > For all the other cases (<= 32 bytes), it is _far_ less complex, far 
> > less code to simply communicate the additional alignment requirements to 
> > the compiler.
> > 
> > What about __attribute__ __aligned__?  Was that tried?
> 
> I used that while narrowing down the bug. But not only the alignment is
> important, but also size needs to be a multiple of the cache line size.
> Which means it needs to be 128 bytes for most SGI machines. That
> and the following in DMA-mapping.txt
> 
> "This rule also means that you may use neither kernel image addresses
> (items in data/text/bss segments), nor module image addresses, nor
> stack addresses for DMA."
> 
> let me choose the kmalloc() solution.

Which is good, the patch has been due for years :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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