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| author | Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-10-01 18:56:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-10-29 09:17:49 +0100 |
| commit | 1db19d6805d9dc5c79f8a19dddde324dbf0a33f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 9cbe6f740f57b6d3fbc6ec76b227826ae4297a73 /Makefile | |
| parent | b425d011e83d220d3be0a19561d6b33d11358fa5 (diff) | |
RDMA/cxgb4: Do not dma memory off of the stack
commit 3840c5b78803b2b6cc1ff820100a74a092c40cbb upstream.
Nicolas pointed out that the cxgb4 driver is doing dma off of the stack,
which is generally considered a very bad thing. On some architectures it
could be a security problem, but odds are none of them actually run this
driver, so it's just a "normal" bug.
Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap
instead of the stack. kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory
location that DMA will work correctly from.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001165611.GA3542072@kroah.com
Reported-by: Nicolas Waisman <nico@semmle.com>
Tested-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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