Patch "media: mxl111sf: Don't use dynamic static allocation" has been added to the 3.12-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    media: mxl111sf: Don't use dynamic static allocation

to the 3.12-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:
     media-mxl111sf-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From c98300a0e8cf160aaea60bc05d2cd156a7666173 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:13:02 -0300
Subject: media: mxl111sf: Don't use dynamic static allocation

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit c98300a0e8cf160aaea60bc05d2cd156a7666173 upstream.

Dynamic static allocation is evil, as Kernel stack is too low, and
compilation complains about it on some archs:
	drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c:74:1: warning: 'mxl111sf_ctrl_msg' uses dynamic stack allocation [enabled by default]
Instead, let's enforce a limit for the buffer to be the max size of
a control URB payload data (64 bytes).

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
 #include "lgdt3305.h"
 #include "lg2160.h"
 
+/* Max transfer size done by I2C transfer functions */
+#define MAX_XFER_SIZE  64
+
 int dvb_usb_mxl111sf_debug;
 module_param_named(debug, dvb_usb_mxl111sf_debug, int, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "set debugging level "
@@ -57,7 +60,12 @@ int mxl111sf_ctrl_msg(struct dvb_usb_dev
 {
 	int wo = (rbuf == NULL || rlen == 0); /* write-only */
 	int ret;
-	u8 sndbuf[1+wlen];
+	u8 sndbuf[MAX_XFER_SIZE];
+
+	if (1 + wlen > sizeof(sndbuf)) {
+		pr_warn("%s: len=%d is too big!\n", __func__, wlen);
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	}
 
 	pr_debug("%s(wlen = %d, rlen = %d)\n", __func__, wlen, rlen);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.12/media-af9015-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-dw2102-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-af9035-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-stb0899_drv-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-dibusb-common-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-cx18-struct-i2c_client-is-too-big-for-stack.patch
queue-3.12/media-tuner-xc2028-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-cimax2-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-tuners-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-v4l2-async-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-dvb-frontends-again-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-dvb-frontends-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-stv090x-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-s5h1420-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-av7110_hw-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-stv0367-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-lirc_zilog-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-cxusb-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
queue-3.12/media-mxl111sf-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
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