comedi_buf.c abuse the DMA API in gravely broken ways, as it assumes it
can call virt_to_page on the result, and the just remap it as uncached
using vmap. Disable the driver until this API abuse has been fixed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file ch
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 03:47:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> comedi_buf.c abuse the DMA API in gravely broken ways, as it assumes it
> can call virt_to_page on the result, and the just remap it as uncached
> using vmap. Disable the driver until this API abuse has been fixed.
>
> Signed-of
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:02:39PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> Perhaps a hint as to how we can fix this up? This is the first time
> I've heard of the comedi code not handling dma properly.
It can be fixed by:
a) never calling virt_to_page (or vmalloc_to_page for that matter)
on dma allocation
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:48:57PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:02:39PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > Perhaps a hint as to how we can fix this up? This is the first time
> > I've heard of the comedi code not handling dma properly.
>
> It can be fixed by:
>
> a) never
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 05:30:32PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:48:57PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:02:39PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Perhaps a hint as to how we can fix this up? This is the first time
> > > I've heard of the comedi code n
On 14/06/2019 16:34, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 05:30:32PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:48:57PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:02:39PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
Perhaps a hint as to how we can fix this up? This is the first tim
