On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 17:29 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 09:26 -0700, Shuah Khan wrote: > > > > Thanks for the report. Since I think doing BUG_ON() in such a scenario > > > is a really bad idea, I've applied a different patch with your > > > Reported-by. > > > > Yeah. I wasn't sure about BUS() either. Did you notice the other cases > > of BUG_ON() in this path in iwl_rx_allocate()? I would think those need > > fixing as well. > > > > rxb->page_dma = > > dma_map_page(trans->dev, page, 0, > > PAGE_SIZE << > > trans_pcie->rx_page_order, > > DMA_FROM_DEVICE); > > /* dma address must be no more than 36 bits */ > > BUG_ON(rxb->page_dma & ~DMA_BIT_MASK(36)); > > /* and also 256 byte aligned! */ > > BUG_ON(rxb->page_dma & DMA_BIT_MASK(8)); > > Well, yes, we could convert them, but we can leave them as they are > because these are assertions that the DMA mapping API guarantees. If > this breaks, it's a bug in the DMA mapping code. > > In contrast, if it fails to map, it's not a bug in the code, it's just > running out of memory or IO space or whatever. Right. > > > Could you please send me commitID for the patch you did. I am interested > > in seeing the failure handling in your patch? > > It's here: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-fixes.git;a=commit;h=7c34158231b2eda8dcbd297be2bb1559e69cb433 > Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
