Re: iwlagn: memory corruption with WPA enterprise

[TomÃÅ JanouÅek]

Hello,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:05:28PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> The farther we get the problem is more and more strange.
> 
> Device that write to wrong address, would generate:
> 
> DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr 6df084000
> DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set

And that's exactly what happens if I don't disable firewire-ohci, because of
that stupid Ricoh multifunction blah blah issue.

> But only if
> 
> PCI-DMA: Using DMAR IOMMU
> 
> was printed in dmesg before. DMAR can be disabled by graphics
> driver, or maybe by other drivers too. Then above print will
> be missed in dmesg and protection would not work.
> 
> Try "dmesg | grep DMAR" to see if DMA remapping is really is
> in use. 

Well, this message is not printed, but as I said, loading firewire-ohci
triggers DMAR faults, so it should be in use anyway.

-- 
TomÃÅ JanouÅek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/
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