RDMA/cxgb4: Do not dma memory off of the stack
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850454 commit 3840c5b7 upstream. Nicolas pointed out that the cxgb4 driver is doing dma off of the stack, which is generally considered a very bad thing. On some architectures it could be a security problem, but odds are none of them actually run this driver, so it's just a "normal" bug. Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap instead of the stack. kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory location that DMA will work correctly from. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001165611.GA3542072@kroah.comReported-by:Nicolas Waisman <nico@semmle.com> Tested-by:
Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by:
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
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