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Commit 493626f2 authored by Takashi Sakamoto's avatar Takashi Sakamoto Committed by Takashi Iwai
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ALSA: bebob: use address returned by kmalloc() instead of kernel stack for streaming DMA mapping

When executing 'fw_run_transaction()' with 'TCODE_WRITE_BLOCK_REQUEST',
an address of 'payload' argument is used for streaming DMA mapping by
'firewire_ohci' module if 'size' argument is larger than 8 byte.
Although in this case the address should not be on kernel stack, current
implementation of ALSA bebob driver uses data in kernel stack for a cue
to boot M-Audio devices. This often brings unexpected result, especially
for a case of CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y.

This commit fixes the bug.

Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201021
Reference: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/firewire-m-audio-410-driver-wont-load-firmware/51165
Fixes: a2b2a779

('ALSA: bebob: Send a cue to load firmware for M-Audio Firewire series')
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.16+
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
parent f7c50fa6
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