[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 19/70] libata: Align ata_device's id on a cacheline

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Mar 16 20:05:12 UTC 2016


v3.19.8-ckt17 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt at imgtec.com>

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 at imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/libata.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index e67edef..ac5bd91 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ 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];
-- 
2.7.0





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