On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 03:55:09PM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> When SPI transfers can be offloaded using DMA, the SPI core need to
> build a scatterlist to make sure that the buffer to be transferred is
> dma-able.
>
> This patch fixes the scatterlist entry size computation in the case
> where the maximum acceptable scatterlist entry supported by the DMA
> controller is less than PAGE_SIZE, when the buffer is vmalloced.
>
> For each entry, the actual size is given by the minimum between the
> desc_len (which is the max buffer size supported by the DMA controller)
> and the remaining buffer length until we cross a page boundary.
>
> Fixes: 65598c13fd66 ("spi: Fix per-page mapping of unaligned vmalloc-ed buffer")
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/spi/spi.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
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