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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack
On (Wed) 01 Feb 2017 [00:02:27], Omar Sandoval wrote:
> From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
>
> put_chars() stuffs the buffer it gets into an sg, but that buffer may be
> on the stack. This breaks with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y (for me, it
> manifested as printks getting turned into NUL bytes).

Seems reasonable. I wonder since all implementations of hvc do a
memcpy, if we can abstract it - but that'll need some work.

Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>

Michael, please add to the virtio queue.

Amit

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