This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix buffers on stack 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: usb-misc-legousbtower-fix-buffers-on-stack.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 942a48730faf149ccbf3e12ac718aee120bb3529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:49:21 +0300 Subject: usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix buffers on stack From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx> commit 942a48730faf149ccbf3e12ac718aee120bb3529 upstream. Allocate buffers on HEAP instead of STACK for local structures that are to be received using usb_control_msg(). Signed-off-by: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Alfredo Rafael Vicente Boix <alviboi@xxxxxxxxx>; Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c @@ -317,9 +317,16 @@ static int tower_open (struct inode *ino int subminor; int retval = 0; struct usb_interface *interface; - struct tower_reset_reply reset_reply; + struct tower_reset_reply *reset_reply; int result; + reset_reply = kmalloc(sizeof(*reset_reply), GFP_KERNEL); + + if (!reset_reply) { + retval = -ENOMEM; + goto exit; + } + nonseekable_open(inode, file); subminor = iminor(inode); @@ -364,8 +371,8 @@ static int tower_open (struct inode *ino USB_TYPE_VENDOR | USB_DIR_IN | USB_RECIP_DEVICE, 0, 0, - &reset_reply, - sizeof(reset_reply), + reset_reply, + sizeof(*reset_reply), 1000); if (result < 0) { dev_err(&dev->udev->dev, @@ -406,6 +413,7 @@ unlock_exit: mutex_unlock(&dev->lock); exit: + kfree(reset_reply); return retval; } @@ -808,7 +816,7 @@ static int tower_probe (struct usb_inter struct lego_usb_tower *dev = NULL; struct usb_host_interface *iface_desc; struct usb_endpoint_descriptor* endpoint; - struct tower_get_version_reply get_version_reply; + struct tower_get_version_reply *get_version_reply = NULL; int i; int retval = -ENOMEM; int result; @@ -886,6 +894,13 @@ static int tower_probe (struct usb_inter dev->interrupt_in_interval = interrupt_in_interval ? interrupt_in_interval : dev->interrupt_in_endpoint->bInterval; dev->interrupt_out_interval = interrupt_out_interval ? interrupt_out_interval : dev->interrupt_out_endpoint->bInterval; + get_version_reply = kmalloc(sizeof(*get_version_reply), GFP_KERNEL); + + if (!get_version_reply) { + retval = -ENOMEM; + goto error; + } + /* get the firmware version and log it */ result = usb_control_msg (udev, usb_rcvctrlpipe(udev, 0), @@ -893,18 +908,19 @@ static int tower_probe (struct usb_inter USB_TYPE_VENDOR | USB_DIR_IN | USB_RECIP_DEVICE, 0, 0, - &get_version_reply, - sizeof(get_version_reply), + get_version_reply, + sizeof(*get_version_reply), 1000); if (result < 0) { dev_err(idev, "LEGO USB Tower get version control request failed\n"); retval = result; goto error; } - dev_info(&interface->dev, "LEGO USB Tower firmware version is %d.%d " - "build %d\n", get_version_reply.major, - get_version_reply.minor, - le16_to_cpu(get_version_reply.build_no)); + dev_info(&interface->dev, + "LEGO USB Tower firmware version is %d.%d build %d\n", + get_version_reply->major, + get_version_reply->minor, + le16_to_cpu(get_version_reply->build_no)); /* we can register the device now, as it is ready */ usb_set_intfdata (interface, dev); @@ -928,6 +944,7 @@ exit: return retval; error: + kfree(get_version_reply); tower_delete(dev); return retval; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/usb-misc-legousbtower-fix-buffers-on-stack.patch queue-4.9/usb-misc-legousbtower-fix-memory-leak.patch