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authorMalcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>2017-04-22 10:14:57 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-05-20 12:28:35 (GMT)
commit83f66c9a602613a79c56a1ae5a8c6152fb57ea8d (patch)
tree0caac2ad495f02555e993d9e8702c91c5d33e33b /drivers/staging/vt6656
parent3eff228fdd43a9d5f242c6a8e5d69a1cb68a27eb (diff)
downloadlinux-83f66c9a602613a79c56a1ae5a8c6152fb57ea8d.tar.xz
staging: vt6656: use off stack for out buffer USB transfers.
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@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/vt6656')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c
index 1c7eca7..f759aa8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c
@@ -47,15 +47,25 @@ int vnt_control_out(struct vnt_private *priv, u8 request, u16 value,
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);