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authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>2017-02-01 00:02:27 -0800
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2017-03-02 01:35:06 +0200
commitc4baad50297d84bde1a7ad45e50c73adae4a2192 (patch)
tree2efdf37fc4b48748d19ed2e3cb8a75908581fd26 /drivers/char
parentf889491380582b4ba2981cf0b0d7d6a40fb30ab7 (diff)
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virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack
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). Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/virtio_console.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 6266c0568e1d..e9b7e0b3cabe 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -1136,6 +1136,8 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
{
struct port *port;
struct scatterlist sg[1];
+ void *data;
+ int ret;
if (unlikely(early_put_chars))
return early_put_chars(vtermno, buf, count);
@@ -1144,8 +1146,14 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
if (!port)
return -EPIPE;
- sg_init_one(sg, buf, count);
- return __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, (void *)buf, false);
+ data = kmemdup(buf, count, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!data)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ sg_init_one(sg, data, count);
+ ret = __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, data, false);
+ kfree(data);
+ return ret;
}
/*