This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled catc: Use heap buffer for memory size test to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: catc-use-heap-buffer-for-memory-size-test.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Feb 14 17:03:08 PST 2017 From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 16:57:04 +0000 Subject: catc: Use heap buffer for memory size test From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2d6a0e9de03ee658a9adc3bfb2f0ca55dff1e478 ] Allocating USB buffers on the stack is not portable, and no longer works on x86_64 (with VMAP_STACK enabled as per default). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/catc.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/catc.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/catc.c @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ static int catc_probe(struct usb_interfa struct net_device *netdev; struct catc *catc; u8 broadcast[ETH_ALEN]; - int i, pktsz, ret; + int pktsz, ret; if (usb_set_interface(usbdev, intf->altsetting->desc.bInterfaceNumber, 1)) { @@ -841,15 +841,24 @@ static int catc_probe(struct usb_interfa catc->irq_buf, 2, catc_irq_done, catc, 1); if (!catc->is_f5u011) { + u32 *buf; + int i; + dev_dbg(dev, "Checking memory size\n"); - i = 0x12345678; - catc_write_mem(catc, 0x7a80, &i, 4); - i = 0x87654321; - catc_write_mem(catc, 0xfa80, &i, 4); - catc_read_mem(catc, 0x7a80, &i, 4); + buf = kmalloc(4, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buf) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto fail_free; + } + + *buf = 0x12345678; + catc_write_mem(catc, 0x7a80, buf, 4); + *buf = 0x87654321; + catc_write_mem(catc, 0xfa80, buf, 4); + catc_read_mem(catc, 0x7a80, buf, 4); - switch (i) { + switch (*buf) { case 0x12345678: catc_set_reg(catc, TxBufCount, 8); catc_set_reg(catc, RxBufCount, 32); @@ -864,6 +873,8 @@ static int catc_probe(struct usb_interfa dev_dbg(dev, "32k Memory\n"); break; } + + kfree(buf); dev_dbg(dev, "Getting MAC from SEEROM.\n"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/catc-combine-failure-cleanup-code-in-catc_probe.patch queue-4.9/catc-use-heap-buffer-for-memory-size-test.patch queue-4.9/pegasus-use-heap-buffers-for-all-register-access.patch queue-4.9/rtl8150-use-heap-buffers-for-all-register-access.patch