On Sunday, July 10, 2011 01:11:09 AM Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:05:48AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > > On Saturday, July 09, 2011 11:14:58 PM Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: > > > pxa2xx_spi_probe allocates struct driver_data and null_dma_buf > > > at same time via spi_alloc_master(), but then calculates > > > null_dma_buf pointer incorrectly, and it causes memory corruption > > > later if DMA usage is enabled. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anars...@gmail.com> > > > --- > > > > > > drivers/spi/pxa2xx_spi.c | 2 +- > > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/spi/pxa2xx_spi.c b/drivers/spi/pxa2xx_spi.c > > > index dc25bee..ef38fbf 100644 > > > --- a/drivers/spi/pxa2xx_spi.c > > > +++ b/drivers/spi/pxa2xx_spi.c > > > @@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ static int __devinit pxa2xx_spi_probe(struct > > > platform_device *pdev) master->transfer = transfer; > > > > > > drv_data->ssp_type = ssp->type; > > > > > > - drv_data->null_dma_buf = (u32 *)ALIGN((u32)(drv_data + > > > + drv_data->null_dma_buf = (u32 *)ALIGN(((u32)drv_data + > > > > > > sizeof(struct driver_data)), 8); > > > > This thing looks a bit disturbing in itself. Like, where the heck is that > > thing pointing in the end ? Since some data are written to address in > > "null_dma_buf" ... isn't this just changing the corruption impact ? > > /* Allocate master with space for drv_data and null dma buffer */ > master = spi_alloc_master(dev, sizeof(struct driver_data) + 16); > > So there's 16 bytes at the end of driver_data. > > However: > > (u32)(drv_data + sizeof(struct driver_data)) > > is pointer arithmetic. drv_data points at an object of sizeof(struct > driver_data). Adding one to this increments the pointer by > sizeof(struct driver_data) bytes. So the above expression increments > the pointer by sizeof(struct driver_data)*sizeof(struct driver_data) > bytes, which is obviously complete rubbish. > > ((u32)drv_data + sizeof(struct driver_data)) > > casts drv_data to a u32 first, then adds the sizeof(struct driver_data) > which moves us into the 16 bytes allocated off the end of the struct.
The ptr arritmetic is clear, it was the 16 bytes after the structure I was missing ... if it's allocated there, it's fine. Thanks for clearing this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general
