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NFC: pn533: don't send USB data off of the stack

PATCH New Johan Hovold 1 participant 1 message May 21, 2018 USB

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PATCH v4 1/1 NFC: pn533: don't send USB data off of the stack

Quoted 15 lines · Greg Kroah-Hartman

It's amazing that this driver ever worked, but now that x86 doesn't allow USB data to be sent off of the stack, it really does not work at all. Fix this up by properly allocating the data for the small "commands" that get sent to the device off of the stack.

We do this for one command by having a whole urb just for ack messages, as they can be submitted in interrupt context, so we can not use usb_bulk_msg(). But the poweron command can sleep (and does), so use usb_bulk_msg() for that transfer.

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v4: don't use urb transfer buffer flags as the memory is tied to the urb
(thanks to Johan) Now we have a new static urb, and we use usb_bulk_msg() for the other message.
v3: actually use the correct buffer (thanks to Arend van Spriel)
use kmemdup (thanks to Johannes Berg and Julia Lawall)
v2: set the urb flags correctly

Your changes look correct now so feel free to add:

It seems we could end up returning an errno from probe with active urbs (if pn533_finalize_setup() fails) in which case the ack buffer would leak. But freeing the urbs while active would then be the bigger problem, and that wasn't introduced by this patch.

Johan
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