From: Gerald Schaefer Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:13:58 +0000 (+0100) Subject: s390/vmlogrdr: fix IUCV buffer allocation X-Git-Tag: v3.12.70~180 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22f604f0eac8189f92489a061796e94004e7aa1f;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git s390/vmlogrdr: fix IUCV buffer allocation 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 Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c b/drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c index cf31d3321dab8..a7f44f30273b0 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c +++ b/drivers/s390/char/vmlogrdr.c @@ -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;