[PATCH 4.4 02/15] [media] siano: make it work again with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 21 2017 - 08:11:32 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit f9c85ee67164b37f9296eab3b754e543e4e96a1c upstream.

Reported as a Kaffeine bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375811

The USB control messages require DMA to work. We cannot pass
a stack-allocated buffer, as it is not warranted that the
stack would be into a DMA enabled area.

On Kernel 4.9, the default is to not accept DMA on stack anymore
on x86 architecture. On other architectures, this has been a
requirement since Kernel 2.2. So, after this patch, this driver
should likely work fine on all archs.

Tested with USB ID 2040:5510: Hauppauge Windham

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c
@@ -200,22 +200,30 @@ static int smsusb_start_streaming(struct
static int smsusb_sendrequest(void *context, void *buffer, size_t size)
{
struct smsusb_device_t *dev = (struct smsusb_device_t *) context;
- struct sms_msg_hdr *phdr = (struct sms_msg_hdr *) buffer;
- int dummy;
+ struct sms_msg_hdr *phdr;
+ int dummy, ret;

if (dev->state != SMSUSB_ACTIVE) {
pr_debug("Device not active yet\n");
return -ENOENT;
}

+ phdr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!phdr)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ memcpy(phdr, buffer, size);
+
pr_debug("sending %s(%d) size: %d\n",
smscore_translate_msg(phdr->msg_type), phdr->msg_type,
phdr->msg_length);

smsendian_handle_tx_message((struct sms_msg_data *) phdr);
- smsendian_handle_message_header((struct sms_msg_hdr *)buffer);
- return usb_bulk_msg(dev->udev, usb_sndbulkpipe(dev->udev, 2),
- buffer, size, &dummy, 1000);
+ smsendian_handle_message_header((struct sms_msg_hdr *)phdr);
+ ret = usb_bulk_msg(dev->udev, usb_sndbulkpipe(dev->udev, 2),
+ phdr, size, &dummy, 1000);
+
+ kfree(phdr);
+ return ret;
}

static char *smsusb1_fw_lkup[] = {