RE: [patch 2/3] Staging: sst: more dereferencing user pointers

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> This is another patch about making a copy of the data into kernel space
> before using it.  It is easy to trigger a kernel oops in the original
> code.  If you passed a NULL to SNDRV_SST_SET_TARGET_DEVICE then it
> called BUG_ON().  And SNDRV_SST_DRIVER_INFO would let you write the
> information to arbitrary memory locations which is a security violation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked by: Vinod Koul <Vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx>

~Vinod
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