On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> Currently stk1160_read_reg() uses a stack-allocated char to get the
> read control value. This is wrong because usb_control_msg() requires
> a kmalloc-ed buffer, and a DMA-API warning is produced:
> 
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1376 at lib/dma-debug.c:1153 check_for_stack+0xa0/0x100()
> ehci-pci 0000:00:0a.0: DMA-API: device driver maps memory fromstack 
> [addr=ffff88003d0b56bf]
> 
> This commit fixes such issue by using a 'usb_ctrl_read' field embedded
> in the device's struct to pass the value. In addition, we introduce a
> mutex to protect the value.

This isn't right either.  The buffer must be allocated in its own cache
line; it must not be part of a larger structure.

Alan Stern

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