virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack
authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Wed, 1 Feb 2017 08:02:27 +0000 (00:02 -0800)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:04:47 +0000 (14:04 +0200)
commitfad5324503f33bf6547c7227de9de936e11f24a2
tree327bad02a331776397c40c6ee698881507b05d96
parent081fb3dc1515e39f57953e7f51aebe8c9de32fb5
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>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
drivers/char/virtio_console.c