From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> put_chars() stuffs the buffer it gets into an sg, but that buffer may be on the stack. This breaks with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y (for me, it manifested as printks getting turned into NUL bytes). Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> --- Patch based on v4.10-rc6. drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index 17857beb4892..3cbf4c95e446 100644 --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c @@ -1136,6 +1136,8 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count) { struct port *port; struct scatterlist sg[1]; + void *data; + int ret; if (unlikely(early_put_chars)) return early_put_chars(vtermno, buf, count); @@ -1144,8 +1146,14 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count) if (!port) return -EPIPE; - sg_init_one(sg, buf, count); - return __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, (void *)buf, false); + data = kmemdup(buf, count, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!data) + return -ENOMEM; + + sg_init_one(sg, data, count); + ret = __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, data, false); + kfree(data); + return ret; } /* -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization