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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Olivier Sobrie <olivier@sobrie.be>
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [can:for-davem 2/3] drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c:431 kvaser_usb_send_simple_msg() error: doing dma on the stack ((null))
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:50:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AE49D2.4080709@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121122144648.GA11612@hposo>

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On 11/22/2012 03:46 PM, Olivier Sobrie wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> Argh.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 02:05:30PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> Hello Olivier,
>>
>> can you please ask on the usb mailinglist how to fix this problem (given
>> this isn't a false positive)
> 
> Ok I'll ask. By googling I found this which looks to be a similar problem
> fixed in another driver.
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=32ec4576c3fb37316b1d11a04b220527822f3f0d
> 
> I assume I've to kmalloc the kvaser_msg I send through
> kvaser_usb_send_msg(). I'll ask to people of linux-usb to be sure.
> 
> By the way I installed smatch (which I never used) and ran the command
>  make CHECK="~/bin/smatch -p=kernel" C=1"
> in my kernel dir but I didn't get the error:
>   CHECK   drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.o
> 
> Do I've to give a specific option to smatch to get this error?

I've not used smack either. Maybe Wu can give us some hints and/or links.

Marc
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-22 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-22 12:22 [can:for-davem 2/3] drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c:431 kvaser_usb_send_simple_msg() error: doing dma on the stack ((null)) kbuild test robot
2012-11-22 13:05 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2012-11-22 14:46   ` Olivier Sobrie
2012-11-22 15:50     ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2012-11-22 16:29       ` Fengguang Wu

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