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 the 4.11-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: staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-in-buffer-usb-transfers.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >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. From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> commit 05c0cf88bec588a7cb34de569acd871ceef26760 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c @@ -75,15 +75,28 @@ int vnt_control_in(struct vnt_private *p 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); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-in-buffer-usb-transfers.patch queue-4.11/staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-out-buffer-usb-transfers.patch