[PATCH 1/3] PCI: hv: Allocate physically contiguous hypercall params buffer

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 04:19:42PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 02:17:16AM +0530, Ajay Kaher wrote:
> > hv_do_hypercall() assumes that we pass a segment from a physically
> > contiguous buffer.  A buffer allocated on the stack may not work if
> > CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y is set.
> > 
> > Use kmalloc() to allocate this buffer.
> > 
> 
> Since you're going to need to resend this anyway, can you add in the
> commit message what this looks like from a user perspective?  Presumably
> it's an occasional crash?
> 

Never mind.  I didn't realize this was a two year old patch.

regards,
dan carpenter