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* [PATCH] sur40:fix DMA on stack
@ 2016-03-22 10:26 Oliver Neukum
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From: Oliver Neukum @ 2016-03-22 10:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-usb, linux-input, dmitry.torokhov, floe
  Cc: Oliver Neukum, Oliver Neukum

During the initialisation that driver uses a buffer on the stack
for DMA. That violates the cache coherency rules. The fix is to
allocate the buffer with kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@suse.com>
---
 drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c b/drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c
index d214f22..5581954 100644
--- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c
+++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c
@@ -196,29 +196,32 @@ static int sur40_command(struct sur40_state *dev,
 /* Initialization routine, called from sur40_open */
 static int sur40_init(struct sur40_state *dev)
 {
-	int result;
-	u8 buffer[24];
+	int result = -ENOMEM;
+	u8 *buffer;
 
+	buffer = kmalloc(24, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buffer)
+		goto error;
 	/* stupidly replay the original MS driver init sequence */
 	result = sur40_command(dev, SUR40_GET_VERSION, 0x00, buffer, 12);
 	if (result < 0)
-		return result;
+		goto error;
 
 	result = sur40_command(dev, SUR40_GET_VERSION, 0x01, buffer, 12);
 	if (result < 0)
-		return result;
+		goto error;
 
 	result = sur40_command(dev, SUR40_GET_VERSION, 0x02, buffer, 12);
 	if (result < 0)
-		return result;
+		goto error;
 
 	result = sur40_command(dev, SUR40_UNKNOWN2,    0x00, buffer, 24);
 	if (result < 0)
-		return result;
+		goto error;
 
 	result = sur40_command(dev, SUR40_UNKNOWN1,    0x00, buffer,  5);
 	if (result < 0)
-		return result;
+		goto error;
 
 	result = sur40_command(dev, SUR40_GET_VERSION, 0x03, buffer, 12);
 
@@ -226,7 +229,8 @@ static int sur40_init(struct sur40_state *dev)
 	 * Discard the result buffer - no known data inside except
 	 * some version strings, maybe extract these sometime...
 	 */
-
+error:
+	kfree(buffer);
 	return result;
 }
 
-- 
2.1.4


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