patch "staging: vt6656: use off stack for out buffer USB transfers." added to staging-next

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

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

to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Malcolm Priestley <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:14:57 +0100
Subject: staging: vt6656: use off stack for out buffer USB transfers.

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.

---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index 9ad8503d2589..ea5a7c65ad1b 100644
@@ -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);
 

2.12.2