[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ALSA: 6fire: fix DMA issues with URB transfer_buffer usage" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: 6fire: fix DMA issues with URB transfer_buffer usage

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From c82a730da6d9a5a1008bfd35cda0fc4d2b4ca38b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:53:24 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: 6fire: fix DMA issues with URB transfer_buffer usage

commit ddb6b5a964371e8e52e696b2b258bda144c8bd3f upstream.

Patch fixes 6fire not to use stack as URB transfer_buffer. URB buffers need to
be DMA-able, which stack is not. Furthermore, transfer_buffer should not be
allocated as part of larger device structure because DMA coherency issues and
patch fixes this issue too.

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi>
Tested-by: Torsten Schenk <torsten.schenk at zoho.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 sound/usb/6fire/comm.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 sound/usb/6fire/comm.h |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/6fire/comm.c b/sound/usb/6fire/comm.c
index 1a75c36..ed3f828 100644
--- a/sound/usb/6fire/comm.c
+++ b/sound/usb/6fire/comm.c
@@ -110,19 +110,37 @@ static int usb6fire_comm_send_buffer(u8 *buffer, struct usb_device *dev)
 static int usb6fire_comm_write8(struct comm_runtime *rt, u8 request,
 		u8 reg, u8 value)
 {
-	u8 buffer[13]; /* 13: maximum length of message */
+	u8 *buffer;
+	int ret;
+
+	/* 13: maximum length of message */
+	buffer = kmalloc(13, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buffer)
+		return -ENOMEM;

 	usb6fire_comm_init_buffer(buffer, 0x00, request, reg, value, 0x00);
-	return usb6fire_comm_send_buffer(buffer, rt->chip->dev);
+	ret = usb6fire_comm_send_buffer(buffer, rt->chip->dev);
+
+	kfree(buffer);
+	return ret;
 }

 static int usb6fire_comm_write16(struct comm_runtime *rt, u8 request,
 		u8 reg, u8 vl, u8 vh)
 {
-	u8 buffer[13]; /* 13: maximum length of message */
+	u8 *buffer;
+	int ret;
+
+	/* 13: maximum length of message */
+	buffer = kmalloc(13, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buffer)
+		return -ENOMEM;

 	usb6fire_comm_init_buffer(buffer, 0x00, request, reg, vl, vh);
-	return usb6fire_comm_send_buffer(buffer, rt->chip->dev);
+	ret = usb6fire_comm_send_buffer(buffer, rt->chip->dev);
+
+	kfree(buffer);
+	return ret;
 }

 int __devinit usb6fire_comm_init(struct sfire_chip *chip)
@@ -135,6 +153,12 @@ int __devinit usb6fire_comm_init(struct sfire_chip *chip)
 	if (!rt)
 		return -ENOMEM;

+	rt->receiver_buffer = kzalloc(COMM_RECEIVER_BUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!rt->receiver_buffer) {
+		kfree(rt);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
 	urb = &rt->receiver;
 	rt->serial = 1;
 	rt->chip = chip;
@@ -153,6 +177,7 @@ int __devinit usb6fire_comm_init(struct sfire_chip *chip)
 	urb->interval = 1;
 	ret = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ret < 0) {
+		kfree(rt->receiver_buffer);
 		kfree(rt);
 		snd_printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "cannot create comm data receiver.");
 		return ret;
@@ -171,6 +196,9 @@ void usb6fire_comm_abort(struct sfire_chip *chip)

 void usb6fire_comm_destroy(struct sfire_chip *chip)
 {
-	kfree(chip->comm);
+	struct comm_runtime *rt = chip->comm;
+
+	kfree(rt->receiver_buffer);
+	kfree(rt);
 	chip->comm = NULL;
 }
diff --git a/sound/usb/6fire/comm.h b/sound/usb/6fire/comm.h
index d2af0a5..fca24e3 100644
--- a/sound/usb/6fire/comm.h
+++ b/sound/usb/6fire/comm.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ struct comm_runtime {
 	struct sfire_chip *chip;

 	struct urb receiver;
-	u8 receiver_buffer[COMM_RECEIVER_BUFSIZE];
+	u8 *receiver_buffer;

 	u8 serial; /* urb serial */

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