Re: [PATCH 4.19 22/71] scsi: target: tcmu: Fix crash in tcmu_flush_dcache_range on ARM

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> From: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 3145550a7f8b08356c8ff29feaa6c56aca12901d ]
> 
> This patch fixes the following crash (see
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208045)
> 
>  Process iscsi_trx (pid: 7496, stack limit = 0x0000000010dd111a)
>  CPU: 0 PID: 7496 Comm: iscsi_trx Not tainted 4.19.118-0419118-generic
>         #202004230533
>  Hardware name: Greatwall QingTian DF720/F601, BIOS 601FBE20 Sep 26 2019
>  pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
...
> The solution is based on patch:
> 
>   "scsi: target: tcmu: Optimize use of flush_dcache_page"
> 
> which restricts the use of tcmu_flush_dcache_range() to addresses from
> vmalloc'ed areas only.

Yeah, but the patch mentioned is not queued for 4.19, so we should not
be simply applying this to 4.19. Does it need to be cherry-picked,
too?

commit 3c58f737231e2c8cbf543a09d84d8c8e80e05e43
Author: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

    scsi: target: tcmu: Optimize use of flush_dcache_page
    
    (scatter|gather)_data_area() need to flush dcache after writing data to or

Best regards,
									Pavel
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