This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rapidio/tsi721_dma: fix failure to obtain transaction descriptor to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rapidio-tsi721_dma-fix-failure-to-obtain-transaction-descriptor.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0193ed8225e1a79ed64632106ec3cc81798cb13c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:08:26 -0700 Subject: rapidio/tsi721_dma: fix failure to obtain transaction descriptor From: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx> commit 0193ed8225e1a79ed64632106ec3cc81798cb13c upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c +++ b/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 stable-queue which might be from alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx are queue-3.14/rapidio-tsi721_dma-fix-failure-to-obtain-transaction-descriptor.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