This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: lirc_zilog: Don't use dynamic static allocation
to the 3.4-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-lirc_zilog-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ac5b4b6bf0c84c48d7e2e3fce22e35b04282ba76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:16:47 -0300
Subject: media: lirc_zilog: Don't use dynamic static allocation
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit ac5b4b6bf0c84c48d7e2e3fce22e35b04282ba76 upstream.
Dynamic static allocation is evil, as Kernel stack is too low, and
ompilation complains about it on some archs:
drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c:967:1: warning: 'read' uses dynamic stack allocation [enabled by default]
Instead, let's enforce a limit for the buffer to be 64. That should
be more than enough.
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/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@
#include <media/lirc_dev.h>
#include <media/lirc.h>
+/* Max transfer size done by I2C transfer functions */
+#define MAX_XFER_SIZE 64
+
struct IR;
struct IR_rx {
@@ -942,7 +945,14 @@ static ssize_t read(struct file *filep,
schedule();
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
} else {
- unsigned char buf[rbuf->chunk_size];
+ unsigned char buf[MAX_XFER_SIZE];
+
+ if (rbuf->chunk_size > sizeof(buf)) {
+ zilog_error("chunk_size is too big (%d)!\n",
+ rbuf->chunk_size);
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
m = lirc_buffer_read(rbuf, buf);
if (m == rbuf->chunk_size) {
ret = copy_to_user((void *)outbuf+written, buf,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/media-lirc_zilog-don-t-use-dynamic-static-allocation.patch
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