Patch "staging: vt6656: use off stack for in buffer USB transfers." has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

staging: vt6656: use off stack for in buffer USB transfers.

to the 3.18-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:
staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-in-buffer-usb-transfers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Malcolm Priestley <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:14:58 +0100
Subject: staging: vt6656: use off stack for in buffer USB transfers.

From: Malcolm Priestley <[email protected]>

commit 05c0cf88bec588a7cb34de569acd871ceef26760 upstream.

Since 4.9 mandated USB buffers to be heap allocated. This causes the driver to fail.

Create buffer for USB transfers.

---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c |   17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -78,15 +78,28 @@ int vnt_control_in(struct vnt_private *p
 		u16 index, u16 length, u8 *buffer)
 {
 	int status;
+	u8 *usb_buffer;
 
 	if (test_bit(DEVICE_FLAGS_DISCONNECTED, &priv->flags))
 		return STATUS_FAILURE;
 
 	mutex_lock(&priv->usb_lock);
 
+	usb_buffer = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!usb_buffer) {
+		mutex_unlock(&priv->usb_lock);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
 	status = usb_control_msg(priv->usb,
-		usb_rcvctrlpipe(priv->usb, 0), request, 0xc0, value,
-			index, buffer, length, USB_CTL_WAIT);
+				 usb_rcvctrlpipe(priv->usb, 0),
+				 request, 0xc0, value,
+				 index, usb_buffer, length, USB_CTL_WAIT);
+
+	if (status == length)
+		memcpy(buffer, usb_buffer, length);
+
+	kfree(usb_buffer);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&priv->usb_lock);
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-in-buffer-usb-transfers.patch queue-3.18/staging-vt6656-use-off-stack-for-out-buffer-usb-transfers.patch