USB: opticon: fix DMA from stack
authorJohan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:29:11 +0000 (10:29 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:36:59 +0000 (09:36 -0700)
Make sure to allocate the control-message buffer dynamically as some
platforms cannot do DMA from stack.

Note that only the first byte of the old buffer was used.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c

index 41b1647..459c288 100644 (file)
@@ -155,7 +155,11 @@ static int send_control_msg(struct usb_serial_port *port, u8 requesttype,
 {
        struct usb_serial *serial = port->serial;
        int retval;
-       u8 buffer[2];
+       u8 *buffer;
+
+       buffer = kzalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!buffer)
+               return -ENOMEM;
 
        buffer[0] = val;
        /* Send the message to the vendor control endpoint
@@ -164,6 +168,7 @@ static int send_control_msg(struct usb_serial_port *port, u8 requesttype,
                                requesttype,
                                USB_DIR_OUT|USB_TYPE_VENDOR|USB_RECIP_INTERFACE,
                                0, 0, buffer, 1, 0);
+       kfree(buffer);
 
        return retval;
 }