This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: can: usb: gs_usb: Fix buffer on stack to the 4.10-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: net-can-usb-gs_usb-fix-buffer-on-stack.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b05c73bd1e3ec60357580eb042ee932a5ed754d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:31:40 +0300 Subject: net: can: usb: gs_usb: Fix buffer on stack From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx> commit b05c73bd1e3ec60357580eb042ee932a5ed754d5 upstream. Allocate buffers on HEAP instead of STACK for local structures that are to be sent using usb_control_msg(). Signed-off-by: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c @@ -740,13 +740,18 @@ static const struct net_device_ops gs_us static int gs_usb_set_identify(struct net_device *netdev, bool do_identify) { struct gs_can *dev = netdev_priv(netdev); - struct gs_identify_mode imode; + struct gs_identify_mode *imode; int rc; + imode = kmalloc(sizeof(*imode), GFP_KERNEL); + + if (!imode) + return -ENOMEM; + if (do_identify) - imode.mode = GS_CAN_IDENTIFY_ON; + imode->mode = GS_CAN_IDENTIFY_ON; else - imode.mode = GS_CAN_IDENTIFY_OFF; + imode->mode = GS_CAN_IDENTIFY_OFF; rc = usb_control_msg(interface_to_usbdev(dev->iface), usb_sndctrlpipe(interface_to_usbdev(dev->iface), @@ -756,10 +761,12 @@ static int gs_usb_set_identify(struct ne USB_RECIP_INTERFACE, dev->channel, 0, - &imode, - sizeof(imode), + imode, + sizeof(*imode), 100); + kfree(imode); + return (rc > 0) ? 0 : rc; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/net-can-usb-gs_usb-fix-buffer-on-stack.patch