Re: [PATCH] usb/mcs7830: Don't use buffers from stack for USB transfers

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Tuesday 20 January 2009, you wrote:
> From: Christian Eggers <christian.eggers@kathrein.de>
> 
> mcs7830_set_reg() and mcs7830_get_reg() are called with buffers
> from stack which must not be used directly for USB transfers.
> This causes corruption of the stack particulary on non x86
> architectures because DMA may be used for these transfers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers <christian.eggers@kathrein.de>

Have you observed problems with this, or just suspected trouble?

When I wrote this code, I looked at other code doing the same
and assumed it was ok, because usb_control_msg waits for the
DMA to complete before returning.

Is the problem only on systems that have noncoherent DMA, or
something else?

> This is my first patch submission for Linux. I hope everything is fine.

I was about to say that you should have Cc:'d me, but then I noticed
that I'm not listed in the driver as maintainer, nor in the MAINTAINERS
file, so I can't really complain here ;-)

	Arnd <><