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Johan Hovold 1e5613b4a6 greybus: operation: fix potential message corruption
Make sure to allocate the message transfer-buffer separately from the
containing message structure to avoid data corruption on systems without
DMA-coherent caches.

The message structure contains state that is updated while the buffer
may be used for DMA, something which could lead to data corruption due
to cache-line sharing on some architectures.

Use the (renamed) message cache for the message structure itself and
allocate the buffer separately.

If the additional allocation is a concern, the message structures
could eventually be allocated as part of the operation structure.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@hovoldconsulting.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
2015-04-07 17:31:05 +02:00
drivers/staging/greybus greybus: operation: fix potential message corruption 2015-04-07 17:31:05 +02:00