Re: ums-realtek driver uses stack memory for DMA

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:04:11PM -0600, Adam Cozzette wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 05:09:06PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We have a report that the ums-realtek driver is generating a backtrace
> > due to using stack variables for DMA buffers.  The backtrace is below
> > and you can view the bug report here:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720054
> > 
> > Looking through the code, it seems that every call to rts51x_read_mem,
> > rts51x_write_mem, and rts51x_read_status passes a stack variable to
> > rts51x_bulk_transport, which then calls usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf with
> > this and generates the backtrace.  It is my understanding that the
> > driver should be passing variables that are not on the stack and have
> > been allocated with memory that will be suitable for the DMA api (e.g.
> > kmalloc).
> > 
> > Was this missed during the initial review and is anyone working on
> > adapting the driver to be compliant?
> 
> Could you try out this patch if it looks ok to you? I have not tested it because
> unfortunately I don't have the hardware. Right now it generates some compile
> warnings like this one:
> 
> drivers/usb/storage/realtek_cr.c:419:40: warning: âbuf[0]â may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
> 
> It think they are harmless but I didn't see an obvious way to get rid of them,
> so if you have any suggestions I would be glad to hear them.
> 
> This patch changed rts51x_read_mem, rts51x_write_mem, and rts51x_read_status to
> allocate temporary buffers with kmalloc. This way stack addresses are not used
> for DMA when these functions call rts51x_bulk_transport.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Cozzette <acozzette@xxxxxxxxxx>

This looks pretty good.  I backported it to 3.0 and will do a scratch
build for the bug reporter to test with.

josh
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