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video: fbdev: udlfb: Fix buffer on stack

Message ID 20170422164922.9472-1-maksim.salau@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Commit Message

Maksim Salau April 22, 2017, 4:49 p.m. UTC
Allocate buffers on HEAP instead of STACK for local array
that is to be sent using usb_control_msg().

Signed-off-by: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Geert Uytterhoeven April 23, 2017, 7:58 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@gmail.com> wrote:
> Allocate buffers on HEAP instead of STACK for local array
> that is to be sent using usb_control_msg().
>
> Signed-off-by: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
> index e9c2f7b..1e83e19 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
> @@ -1487,15 +1487,27 @@ static struct device_attribute fb_device_attrs[] = {
>  static int dlfb_select_std_channel(struct dlfb_data *dev)
>  {
>         int ret;
> -       u8 set_def_chn[] = {       0x57, 0xCD, 0xDC, 0xA7,
> +       void *buf = NULL;
> +       const u8 set_def_chn[] = {

Please make this static, else it will be copied once more by the compiler.

> +                               0x57, 0xCD, 0xDC, 0xA7,
>                                 0x1C, 0x88, 0x5E, 0x15,
>                                 0x60, 0xFE, 0xC6, 0x97,
>                                 0x16, 0x3D, 0x47, 0xF2  };
>
> +       buf = kmalloc(sizeof(set_def_chn), GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +       if (!buf)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +       memcpy(buf, set_def_chn, sizeof(set_def_chn));

kmalloc() + memcpy() => kmemdup().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Maksim Salau April 24, 2017, 8:06 a.m. UTC | #2
> > +       const u8 set_def_chn[] = {  
> 
> Please make this static, else it will be copied once more by the compiler.
> 
> kmalloc() + memcpy() => kmemdup().
> 

Thanks, Geert!
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
index e9c2f7b..1e83e19 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
@@ -1487,15 +1487,27 @@  static struct device_attribute fb_device_attrs[] = {
 static int dlfb_select_std_channel(struct dlfb_data *dev)
 {
 	int ret;
-	u8 set_def_chn[] = {	   0x57, 0xCD, 0xDC, 0xA7,
+	void *buf = NULL;
+	const u8 set_def_chn[] = {
+				0x57, 0xCD, 0xDC, 0xA7,
 				0x1C, 0x88, 0x5E, 0x15,
 				0x60, 0xFE, 0xC6, 0x97,
 				0x16, 0x3D, 0x47, 0xF2  };
 
+	buf = kmalloc(sizeof(set_def_chn), GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	memcpy(buf, set_def_chn, sizeof(set_def_chn));
+
 	ret = usb_control_msg(dev->udev, usb_sndctrlpipe(dev->udev, 0),
 			NR_USB_REQUEST_CHANNEL,
 			(USB_DIR_OUT | USB_TYPE_VENDOR), 0, 0,
-			set_def_chn, sizeof(set_def_chn), USB_CTRL_SET_TIMEOUT);
+			buf, sizeof(set_def_chn), USB_CTRL_SET_TIMEOUT);
+
+	kfree(buf);
+
 	return ret;
 }