Re: [PATCH] USB: set device dma_mask without reference to global data

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On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:53:52PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Many USB host drivers contain code such as:
> 
> if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask)
>         pdev->dev.dma_mask = &tegra_ehci_dma_mask;
> 
> ... where tegra_ehci_dma_mask is a global. I suspect this code originated
> in commit 4a53f4e "USB: ehci-tegra: add probing through device tree" and
> was simply copied everywhere else.
> 
> This works fine when the code is built-in, but can cause a crash when the
> code is in a module. The first module load sets up the dma_mask pointer,
> but if the module is removed and re-inserted, the value is now non-NULL,
> and hence is not updated to point at the new location, and hence points
> at a stale location within the previous module load address, which in
> turn causes a crash if the pointer is de-referenced.
> 
> The simplest way of solving this seems to be to copy the code from
> ehci-platform.c, which uses the coherent_dma_mask as the target for the
> dma_mask pointer.
> 
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

So this needs to go in for 3.10, right?  Any older kernels as well?  If
so, which ones?

thanks,

greg k-h
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