This is an automatic generated email to let you know that the following patch were queued at the http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git tree: Subject: [media] media: stk1160: Avoid stack-allocated buffer for control URBs Author: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 17 09:28:20 2014 -0300 Currently stk1160_read_reg() uses a stack-allocated char to get the read control value. This is wrong because usb_control_msg() requires a kmalloc-ed buffer. This commit fixes such issue by kmalloc'ating a 1-byte buffer to receive the read value. While here, let's remove the urb_buf array which was meant for a similar purpose, but never really used. Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # for v3.7 and up Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx> drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-core.c | 10 +++++++++- drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git?a=commitdiff;h=85ac1a1772bb41da895bad83a81f6a62c8f293f6 diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-core.c b/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-core.c index 34a26e0..03504dc 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-core.c @@ -67,17 +67,25 @@ int stk1160_read_reg(struct stk1160 *dev, u16 reg, u8 *value) { int ret; int pipe = usb_rcvctrlpipe(dev->udev, 0); + u8 *buf; *value = 0; + + buf = kmalloc(sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; ret = usb_control_msg(dev->udev, pipe, 0x00, USB_DIR_IN | USB_TYPE_VENDOR | USB_RECIP_DEVICE, - 0x00, reg, value, sizeof(u8), HZ); + 0x00, reg, buf, sizeof(u8), HZ); if (ret < 0) { stk1160_err("read failed on reg 0x%x (%d)\n", reg, ret); + kfree(buf); return ret; } + *value = *buf; + kfree(buf); return 0; } diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160.h b/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160.h index 05b05b1..abdea48 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160.h +++ b/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160.h @@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ struct stk1160 { int num_alt; struct stk1160_isoc_ctl isoc_ctl; - char urb_buf[255]; /* urb control msg buffer */ /* frame properties */ int width; /* current frame width */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html