This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: vt6656: use off stack for out buffer USB transfers.
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:
staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-out-buffer-usb-transfers.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 12ecd24ef93277e4e5feaf27b0b18f2d3828bc5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:14:57 +0100
Subject: staging: vt6656: use off stack for out buffer USB transfers.
From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 12ecd24ef93277e4e5feaf27b0b18f2d3828bc5e upstream.
Since 4.9 mandated USB buffers be heap allocated this causes the driver
to fail.
Since there is a wide range of buffer sizes use kmemdup to create
allocated buffer.
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c
@@ -47,15 +47,25 @@ int vnt_control_out(struct vnt_private *
u16 index, u16 length, u8 *buffer)
{
int status = 0;
+ u8 *usb_buffer;
if (test_bit(DEVICE_FLAGS_DISCONNECTED, &priv->flags))
return STATUS_FAILURE;
mutex_lock(&priv->usb_lock);
+ usb_buffer = kmemdup(buffer, length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!usb_buffer) {
+ mutex_unlock(&priv->usb_lock);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
status = usb_control_msg(priv->usb,
- usb_sndctrlpipe(priv->usb, 0), request, 0x40, value,
- index, buffer, length, USB_CTL_WAIT);
+ usb_sndctrlpipe(priv->usb, 0),
+ request, 0x40, value,
+ index, usb_buffer, length, USB_CTL_WAIT);
+
+ kfree(usb_buffer);
mutex_unlock(&priv->usb_lock);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-in-buffer-usb-transfers.patch
queue-4.9/staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-out-buffer-usb-transfers.patch