This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: vt6656: use off stack for in buffer USB transfers. to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-testing branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will be merged to the staging-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 05c0cf88bec588a7cb34de569acd871ceef26760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:14:58 +0100 Subject: staging: vt6656: use off stack for in buffer USB transfers. Since 4.9 mandated USB buffers to be heap allocated. This causes the driver to fail. Create buffer for USB transfers. Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.9+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c index ea5a7c65ad1b..dc11a05be8c4 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c @@ -85,15 +85,28 @@ int vnt_control_in(struct vnt_private *priv, u8 request, u16 value, u16 index, u16 length, u8 *buffer) { int status; + u8 *usb_buffer; if (test_bit(DEVICE_FLAGS_DISCONNECTED, &priv->flags)) return STATUS_FAILURE; mutex_lock(&priv->usb_lock); + usb_buffer = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!usb_buffer) { + mutex_unlock(&priv->usb_lock); + return -ENOMEM; + } + status = usb_control_msg(priv->usb, - usb_rcvctrlpipe(priv->usb, 0), request, 0xc0, - value, index, buffer, length, USB_CTL_WAIT); + usb_rcvctrlpipe(priv->usb, 0), + request, 0xc0, value, + index, usb_buffer, length, USB_CTL_WAIT); + + if (status == length) + memcpy(buffer, usb_buffer, length); + + kfree(usb_buffer); mutex_unlock(&priv->usb_lock); -- 2.12.2