virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack
authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Wed, 1 Feb 2017 08:02:27 +0000 (00:02 -0800)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Tue, 9 May 2017 06:19:26 +0000 (08:19 +0200)
commitce08bcbc3e4d70a496246fd774205a188dc86155
tree52ded316be485be623d71a196703c2ff59b6b07b
parent59546b98395d875f4f85cb1cbac0b5396e3ffe45
virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack

commit c4baad50297d84bde1a7ad45e50c73adae4a2192 upstream.

put_chars() stuffs the buffer it gets into an sg, but that buffer may be
on the stack. This breaks with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y (for me, it
manifested as printks getting turned into NUL bytes).

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
drivers/char/virtio_console.c