Re: [PATCH 2/2] hso: Fix stack corruption on some architectures

[David Miller]

From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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] <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>

Applied.
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