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[3.5.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "USB: mos7720: fix DMA to stack" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1370942469-5310-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques June 11, 2013, 9:21 a.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    USB: mos7720: fix DMA to stack

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 542b8034a48bb0534bb37f5af62ca19eecea00ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 14:44:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] USB: mos7720: fix DMA to stack

commit 72ea18a558ed7a63a50bb121ba60d73b5b38ae30 upstream.

The read_mos_reg function is called with stack-allocated buffers, which
must not be used for control messages.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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1.8.1.2
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diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c
index a07dd3c..52b3342 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c
@@ -234,11 +234,22 @@  static int read_mos_reg(struct usb_serial *serial, unsigned int serial_portnum,
 	__u8 requesttype = (__u8)0xc0;
 	__u16 index = get_reg_index(reg);
 	__u16 value = get_reg_value(reg, serial_portnum);
-	int status = usb_control_msg(usbdev, pipe, request, requesttype, value,
-				     index, data, 1, MOS_WDR_TIMEOUT);
-	if (status < 0)
+	u8 *buf;
+	int status;
+
+	buf = kmalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	status = usb_control_msg(usbdev, pipe, request, requesttype, value,
+				     index, buf, 1, MOS_WDR_TIMEOUT);
+	if (status == 1)
+		*data = *buf;
+	else if (status < 0)
 		dev_err(&usbdev->dev,
 			"mos7720: usb_control_msg() failed: %d", status);
+	kfree(buf);
+
 	return status;
 }