This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtl8150: Use heap buffers for all register access 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: rtl8150-use-heap-buffers-for-all-register-access.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 16:56:32 +0000 Subject: rtl8150: Use heap buffers for all register access From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7926aff5c57b577ab0f43364ff0c59d968f6a414 ] 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/rtl8150.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c @@ -155,16 +155,36 @@ static const char driver_name [] = "rtl8 */ static int get_registers(rtl8150_t * dev, u16 indx, u16 size, void *data) { - return usb_control_msg(dev->udev, usb_rcvctrlpipe(dev->udev, 0), - RTL8150_REQ_GET_REGS, RTL8150_REQT_READ, - indx, 0, data, size, 500); + void *buf; + int ret; + + buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOIO); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + + ret = usb_control_msg(dev->udev, usb_rcvctrlpipe(dev->udev, 0), + RTL8150_REQ_GET_REGS, RTL8150_REQT_READ, + indx, 0, buf, size, 500); + if (ret > 0 && ret <= size) + memcpy(data, buf, ret); + kfree(buf); + return ret; } -static int set_registers(rtl8150_t * dev, u16 indx, u16 size, void *data) +static int set_registers(rtl8150_t * dev, u16 indx, u16 size, const void *data) { - return usb_control_msg(dev->udev, usb_sndctrlpipe(dev->udev, 0), - RTL8150_REQ_SET_REGS, RTL8150_REQT_WRITE, - indx, 0, data, size, 500); + void *buf; + int ret; + + buf = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_NOIO); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + + ret = usb_control_msg(dev->udev, usb_sndctrlpipe(dev->udev, 0), + RTL8150_REQ_SET_REGS, RTL8150_REQT_WRITE, + indx, 0, buf, size, 500); + kfree(buf); + return ret; } static void async_set_reg_cb(struct urb *urb) 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