This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pegasus: 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: pegasus-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 16:56:03 +0000 Subject: pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5593523f968bc86d42a035c6df47d5e0979b5ace ] 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") References: https://bugs.debian.org/852556 Reported-by: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/pegasus.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c @@ -126,40 +126,61 @@ static void async_ctrl_callback(struct u static int get_registers(pegasus_t *pegasus, __u16 indx, __u16 size, void *data) { + u8 *buf; int ret; + buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOIO); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + ret = usb_control_msg(pegasus->usb, usb_rcvctrlpipe(pegasus->usb, 0), PEGASUS_REQ_GET_REGS, PEGASUS_REQT_READ, 0, - indx, data, size, 1000); + indx, buf, size, 1000); if (ret < 0) netif_dbg(pegasus, drv, pegasus->net, "%s returned %d\n", __func__, ret); + else if (ret <= size) + memcpy(data, buf, ret); + kfree(buf); return ret; } -static int set_registers(pegasus_t *pegasus, __u16 indx, __u16 size, void *data) +static int set_registers(pegasus_t *pegasus, __u16 indx, __u16 size, + const void *data) { + u8 *buf; int ret; + buf = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_NOIO); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + ret = usb_control_msg(pegasus->usb, usb_sndctrlpipe(pegasus->usb, 0), PEGASUS_REQ_SET_REGS, PEGASUS_REQT_WRITE, 0, - indx, data, size, 100); + indx, buf, size, 100); if (ret < 0) netif_dbg(pegasus, drv, pegasus->net, "%s returned %d\n", __func__, ret); + kfree(buf); return ret; } static int set_register(pegasus_t *pegasus, __u16 indx, __u8 data) { + u8 *buf; int ret; + buf = kmemdup(&data, 1, GFP_NOIO); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + ret = usb_control_msg(pegasus->usb, usb_sndctrlpipe(pegasus->usb, 0), PEGASUS_REQ_SET_REG, PEGASUS_REQT_WRITE, data, - indx, &data, 1, 1000); + indx, buf, 1, 1000); if (ret < 0) netif_dbg(pegasus, drv, pegasus->net, "%s returned %d\n", __func__, ret); + kfree(buf); return ret; } 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