lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [Mar]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 12:01:10PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 07:17:12PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hi, Michael,
>
> I don't see this in Linus' master or in your git tree, is it going to go
> in for -rc1?
>
> Thanks.

Yes.

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2017-03-01 22:35    [W:0.114 / U:0.108 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site