Re: [PATCH] USB: usblp: fix DMA to stack

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On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 03:59:02PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 03:53:02PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Stack-allocated buffers cannot be used for DMA (on all architectures).
> > 
> > Replace the HP-channel macro with a helper function that allocates a
> > dedicated transfer buffer so that it can continue to be used with
> > arguments from the stack.

> Wow, no one uses this driver anymore it seems, this should have
> triggered a runtime warning on newer kernels :(

This helper is only used by the IOCNR_HP_SET_CHANNEL ioctl so perhaps
it's just that one which isn't used much.

Johan



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