RE: [PATCH v1] dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix kernel hangs with SLUB slab allocator

[Robin Gong]

On 2019-10-14 Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14-10-19, 13:32, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On 24-09-19, 09:49, Robin Gong wrote:
> > > Illegal memory will be touch if SDMA_SCRIPT_ADDRS_ARRAY_SIZE_V3
> > > (41) exceed the size of structure sdma_script_start_addrs(40), thus
> > > cause memory corrupt such as slob block header so that kernel trap
> > > into while() loop forever in slob_free(). Please refer to below code
> > > piece in imx-sdma.c:
> > > for (i = 0; i < sdma->script_number; i++)
> > > 	if (addr_arr[i] > 0)
> > > 		saddr_arr[i] = addr_arr[i]; /* memory corrupt here */ That issue
> > > was brought by commit a572460be9cf ("dmaengine: imx-sdma: Add
> > > support for version 3 firmware") because
> > > SDMA_SCRIPT_ADDRS_ARRAY_SIZE_V3
> > > (38->41 3 scripts added) not align with script number added in
> > > sdma_script_start_addrs(2 scripts).
> >
> > Applied, thanks
> 
> And after applying I noticed the patch title is not apt. The patch title should
> reflect the change and not the cause or result.
> 
> So I have modified the title to: "dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix size check for sdma
> script_number"
Yes, You are right, thanks Vinod.
> 
> Thanks
> --
> ~Vinod