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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Robert Tarasov <tutankhamen@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
	Maling list - DRI developers <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/udl: Refactor edid retreiving in UDL driver
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:00:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftrpixm8.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGnhOiWB7rQZ2vs_Q+aw6-Vptyx9=QFYgY3aQLuzvmxUiVK3Rg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Robert Tarasov <tutankhamen@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:26 AM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
>  read_buff = kmalloc(2, GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> A follow-up cleanup might be to switch to using "u8 read_buff[2];"
>> instead of kmallocing it.
>>
>> I don't claim to understand how the usb stuff works, but otherwise the
>> patch looks good to me. Nice refactoring!
>>
>>
> "The buffer passed to usb_control_msg may end up in scatter-gather list,
> and may thus not be on the stack. Having it on the stack usually works on
> x86,   but not on other archs. "

Apparently you're referring to commit 242187b36255 ("udldrmfb:
udl_get_edid: usb_control_msg buffer must not be on the stack"). Cc:
Hans.

Mind blows. Not a word on this anywhere in usb_control_msg()
documentation. Nothing. I found this patch [1] that never go applied,
which doesn't actually say anything about stack, only alignment and
padding. Cc: Mauro.

I think with this usb_control_msg() goes to negative levels in Rusty's
API design manifesto.


BR,
Jani.



[1] http://mid.mail-archive.com/ee3ea6944e095fa3b2383697a967f4bc9e2d9631.1490813422.git.mchehab@s-opensource.com


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-14  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-13  1:04 [PATCH] drm/udl: Refactor edid retreiving in UDL driver Robert Tarasov
2019-03-13  9:27 ` Jani Nikula
2019-03-13 18:36   ` Robert Tarasov
2019-03-14 10:00     ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2019-03-14 10:46       ` Hans de Goede
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-03-13 18:38 Robert Tarasov
2019-03-15  2:04 ` Dave Airlie
2019-03-15  9:55   ` Jani Nikula

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