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s390/vmlogrdr: fix IUCV buffer allocation
authorGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:13:58 +0000 (12:13 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:39:06 +0000 (17:39 +0100)
commit 5457e03de918f7a3e294eb9d26a608ab8a579976 upstream.

The buffer for iucv_message_receive() needs to be below 2 GB. In
__iucv_message_receive(), the buffer address is casted to an u32, which
would result in either memory corruption or an addressing exception when
using addresses >= 2 GB.

Fix this by using GFP_DMA for the buffer allocation.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c

index cf31d3321dab86b889b16fa5e3b9b2e433c3992d..a7f44f30273b09bfd6acf15521941fe23b5203ff 100644 (file)
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ static int __init vmlogrdr_init(void)
                goto cleanup;
 
        for (i=0; i < MAXMINOR; ++i ) {
-               sys_ser[i].buffer = (char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+               sys_ser[i].buffer = (char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
                if (!sys_ser[i].buffer) {
                        rc = -ENOMEM;
                        break;