Re: [PATCH] Fix stack corruption on some architectures

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> There is no need to get an interface specification if we know it's the
> wrong one; trivial change. The big thing, though, was explained in the
> #mipslinux IRC channel: 
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:28:21 PM PDT] <headless> guys, are you sure it's not "DMA off stack" case?
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:28:35 PM PDT] <headless> it's a known stack corruptor on non-coherent arches
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:31:48 PM PDT] <DonkeyHotei> headless: for usb/ehci?
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:34:11 PM PDT] <DonkeyHotei> headless: explain
> [Mon 2013-08-19 12:35:38 PM PDT] <headless> 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] <headless> and EHCI uses DMA on control xfers (as well as all the others)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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