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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Cc: pkshih@realtek.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	straube.linux@gmail.com, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
	christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8192ce: avoid accessing the data mapped to streaming DMA
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 2020 11:44:12 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201107114412.87F8EC43382@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201019030931.4796-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com>

Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> wrote:

> In rtl92ce_tx_fill_cmddesc(), skb->data is mapped to streaming DMA on
> line 530:
>   dma_addr_t mapping = dma_map_single(..., skb->data, ...);
> 
> On line 533, skb->data is assigned to hdr after cast:
>   struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)(skb->data);
> 
> Then hdr->frame_control is accessed on line 534:
>   __le16 fc = hdr->frame_control;
> 
> This DMA access may cause data inconsistency between CPU and hardwre.
> 
> To fix this bug, hdr->frame_control is accessed before the DMA mapping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>

Like Ping said, use "rtlwifi:" prefix and have all rtlwifi patches in
the same patchset.

4 patches set to Changes Requested.

11843533 rtl8192ce: avoid accessing the data mapped to streaming DMA
11843541 rtl8192de: avoid accessing the data mapped to streaming DMA
11843553 rtl8723ae: avoid accessing the data mapped to streaming DMA
11843557 rtl8188ee: avoid accessing the data mapped to streaming DMA

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20201019030931.4796-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-07 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-19  3:09 [PATCH] rtl8192ce: avoid accessing the data mapped to streaming DMA Jia-Ju Bai
2020-10-28  4:41 ` Pkshih
2020-11-07 11:44 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
     [not found] ` <20201107114412.4BEEAC433C9@smtp.codeaurora.org>
2020-11-18  1:56   ` Jia-Ju Bai

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