libata: Align ata_device's id on a cacheline
authorHarvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@imgtec.com>
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:16:43 +0000 (15:16 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 9 Mar 2016 23:31:54 +0000 (15:31 -0800)
commit 4ee34ea3a12396f35b26d90a094c75db95080baa upstream.

The id buffer in ata_device is a DMA target, but it isn't explicitly
cacheline aligned. Due to this, adjacent fields can be overwritten with
stale data from memory on non coherent architectures. As a result, the
kernel is sometimes unable to communicate with an ATA device.

Fix this by ensuring that the id buffer is cacheline aligned.

This issue is similar to that fixed by Commit 84bda12af31f
("libata: align ap->sector_buf").

Signed-off-by: Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/libata.h

index 8ad0771b88abfd4589f01e07cd446e93f0bc9107..8017e5c459cfe0980bd0e28fb24f6ba70f17ff9a 100644 (file)
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ struct ata_device {
        union {
                u16             id[ATA_ID_WORDS]; /* IDENTIFY xxx DEVICE data */
                u32             gscr[SATA_PMP_GSCR_DWORDS]; /* PMP GSCR block */
-       };
+       } ____cacheline_aligned;
 
        /* DEVSLP Timing Variables from Identify Device Data Log */
        u8                      devslp_timing[ATA_LOG_DEVSLP_SIZE];