On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:41:35PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote: > Currently the I/O buffer is allocated part of the device status > structure, potentially sharing the same cache line with other members > in this structure. > > Allocate the buffer separately, to avoid the I/O operations corrupting > the device status structure due to cache line sharing. > > Compiled tested only as I don't have access to hardware. > > Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/mfd/viperboard.c | 8 ++++++++ > include/linux/mfd/viperboard.h | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/viperboard.c b/drivers/mfd/viperboard.c > index e00f534..5f62f4e 100644 > --- a/drivers/mfd/viperboard.c > +++ b/drivers/mfd/viperboard.c > @@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ static int vprbrd_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, > return -ENOMEM; > } > > + vb->buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vprbrd_i2c_write_msg), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (vb->buf == NULL) { > + ret = -ENOMEM; > + goto error; > + } > + > mutex_init(&vb->lock); > > vb->usb_dev = usb_get_dev(interface_to_usbdev(interface)); > @@ -105,6 +111,7 @@ static int vprbrd_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, > error: > if (vb) { > usb_put_dev(vb->usb_dev); > + kfree(vb->buf); > kfree(vb); > } > > @@ -118,6 +125,7 @@ static void vprbrd_disconnect(struct usb_interface *interface) > mfd_remove_devices(&interface->dev); > usb_set_intfdata(interface, NULL); > usb_put_dev(vb->usb_dev); > + kfree(vb->buf); > kfree(vb); > > dev_dbg(&interface->dev, "disconnected\n"); > diff --git a/include/linux/mfd/viperboard.h b/include/linux/mfd/viperboard.h > index 1934528..af928d0 100644 > --- a/include/linux/mfd/viperboard.h > +++ b/include/linux/mfd/viperboard.h > @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct vprbrd_i2c_addr_msg { > struct vprbrd { > struct usb_device *usb_dev; /* the usb device for this device */ > struct mutex lock; > - u8 buf[sizeof(struct vprbrd_i2c_write_msg)]; > + u8 *buf; > struct platform_device pdev; > }; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html