The patch titled Subject: rapidio/tsi721_dma: fix failure to obtain transaction descriptor has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rapidio-tsi721_dma-fix-failure-to-obtain-transaction-descriptor.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/rapidio-tsi721_dma-fix-failure-to-obtain-transaction-descriptor.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/rapidio-tsi721_dma-fix-failure-to-obtain-transaction-descriptor.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx> Subject: rapidio/tsi721_dma: fix failure to obtain transaction descriptor This is a bug fix for the situation when function tsi721_desc_get() fails to obtain a free transaction descriptor. The bug usually results in a memory access crash dump when data transfer scatter-gather list has more entries than size of hardware buffer descriptors ring. This fix ensures that error is properly returned to a caller instead of an invalid entry. This patch is applicable to kernel versions starting from v3.5. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.5+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c~rapidio-tsi721_dma-fix-failure-to-obtain-transaction-descriptor drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c~rapidio-tsi721_dma-fix-failure-to-obtain-transaction-descriptor +++ a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c @@ -287,6 +287,12 @@ struct tsi721_tx_desc *tsi721_desc_get(s "desc %p not ACKed\n", tx_desc); } + if (ret == NULL) { + dev_dbg(bdma_chan->dchan.device->dev, + "%s: unable to obtain tx descriptor\n", __func__); + goto err_out; + } + i = bdma_chan->wr_count_next % bdma_chan->bd_num; if (i == bdma_chan->bd_num - 1) { i = 0; @@ -297,7 +303,7 @@ struct tsi721_tx_desc *tsi721_desc_get(s tx_desc->txd.phys = bdma_chan->bd_phys + i * sizeof(struct tsi721_dma_desc); tx_desc->hw_desc = &((struct tsi721_dma_desc *)bdma_chan->bd_base)[i]; - +err_out: spin_unlock_bh(&bdma_chan->lock); return ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx are rapidio-tsi721_dma-fix-failure-to-obtain-transaction-descriptor.patch rapidio-add-new-rapidio-dma-interface-routines.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html