Huacai Chen c2e8fbf908 scsi: libsas: align sata_device's rps_resp on a cacheline
The rps_resp 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 SATA
device behind a SAS expander.

Fix this by ensuring that the rps_resp buffer is cacheline aligned.

This issue is similar to that fixed by Commit 84bda12af3 ("libata:
align ap->sector_buf") and Commit 4ee34ea3a1 ("libata: Align
ata_device's id on a cacheline").

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-11-21 23:06:32 -05:00
2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00

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