Re: Fw: [PATCH v2] cinergyT2-core: don't do DMA on stack

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Oct 06 2016 - 13:28:30 EST


On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to C/C people that are at the "Re: Problem with VMAP_STACK=y"
> thread.
>
> Forwarded message:
>
> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 15:54:18 -0300
> From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] cinergyT2-core: don't do DMA on stack
>
>
> The USB control messages require DMA to work. We cannot pass
> a stack-allocated buffer, as it is not warranted that the
> stack would be into a DMA enabled area.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Added the fixups made by Johannes Stezenbach
>
> drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cinergyT2-core.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cinergyT2-core.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cinergyT2-core.c
> index 9fd1527494eb..8267e3777af6 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cinergyT2-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cinergyT2-core.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ DVB_DEFINE_MOD_OPT_ADAPTER_NR(adapter_nr);
>
> struct cinergyt2_state {
> u8 rc_counter;
> + unsigned char data[64];
> };
>
> /* We are missing a release hook with usb_device data */
> @@ -50,29 +51,36 @@ static struct dvb_usb_device_properties cinergyt2_properties;
>
> static int cinergyt2_streaming_ctrl(struct dvb_usb_adapter *adap, int enable)
> {
> - char buf[] = { CINERGYT2_EP1_CONTROL_STREAM_TRANSFER, enable ? 1 : 0 };
> - char result[64];
> - return dvb_usb_generic_rw(adap->dev, buf, sizeof(buf), result,
> - sizeof(result), 0);
> + struct dvb_usb_device *d = adap->dev;
> + struct cinergyt2_state *st = d->priv;
> +
> + st->data[0] = CINERGYT2_EP1_CONTROL_STREAM_TRANSFER;
> + st->data[1] = enable ? 1 : 0;
> +
> + return dvb_usb_generic_rw(d, st->data, 2, st->data, 64, 0);
> }
>
> static int cinergyt2_power_ctrl(struct dvb_usb_device *d, int enable)
> {

This...

> - char buf[] = { CINERGYT2_EP1_SLEEP_MODE, enable ? 0 : 1 };
> - char state[3];
> - return dvb_usb_generic_rw(d, buf, sizeof(buf), state, sizeof(state), 0);
> + struct cinergyt2_state *st = d->priv;
> +
> + st->data[0] = CINERGYT2_EP1_SLEEP_MODE;

...does not match this:

> + st->data[1] = enable ? 1 : 0;

--Andy