Re: [PATCH 00/14] USB: serial: fix DMA buffers on stack andendianess bugs

[Johan Hovold]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 06:06:11PM +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:01:44PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > These patches should address all remaining instances of DMA buffers on stack
> > (being passed to usb_control_msg) for the usb serial drivers. They also fix a
> > few endianess bugs I found along the way and do some minor clean up.
> > 
> 
> Wow.  You have inspired me again to update smatch.  It didn't catch any of
> those.
> 
> Smatch found one other dma bug so I'll send a patch for it.  (I would feel like
> a jerk leaving it for you to fix on top of all the other stuff you have
> done.)

Good catch. I only backtracked from direct calls to usb_control_msg. :)
Doing so by hand can be quite tedious so automatic testing for this is
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Johan

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