Re: [PATCH 1/3] PCI: hv: Allocate physically contiguous hypercall params buffer

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 02:17:16AM +0530, Ajay Kaher wrote:
> hv_do_hypercall() assumes that we pass a segment from a physically
> contiguous buffer.  A buffer allocated on the stack may not work if
> CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y is set.
> 
> Use kmalloc() to allocate this buffer.
> 

Since you're going to need to resend this anyway, can you add in the
commit message what this looks like from a user perspective?  Presumably
it's an occasional crash?

regards,
dan carpenter




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