From patchwork Wed Nov 11 23:54:38 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Larry Finger X-Patchwork-Id: 59460 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nABNsh9m030629 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:54:43 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759450AbZKKXyg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:54:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759435AbZKKXyg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:54:36 -0500 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:46202 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757535AbZKKXyf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:54:35 -0500 Received: from larrylap.site ([65.28.92.235]) by hrndva-omta03.mail.rr.com with SMTP id <20091111235439648.IRJQ12367@hrndva-omta03.mail.rr.com>; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:54:39 +0000 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:54:38 -0600 From: Larry Finger To: John W Linville , chunkeey@web.de Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] p54usb: Remove DMA buffer from stack Message-ID: <4afb4ebe.aG/GwqejIBV6vYXK%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.2 01/07/07 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c @@ -426,12 +426,16 @@ static const char p54u_romboot_3887[] = static int p54u_firmware_reset_3887(struct ieee80211_hw *dev) { struct p54u_priv *priv = dev->priv; - u8 buf[4]; + u8 *buf; int ret; - memcpy(&buf, p54u_romboot_3887, sizeof(buf)); + buf = kmalloc(4, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + memcpy(buf, p54u_romboot_3887, 4); ret = p54u_bulk_msg(priv, P54U_PIPE_DATA, - buf, sizeof(buf)); + buf, 4); + kfree(buf); if (ret) dev_err(&priv->udev->dev, "(p54usb) unable to jump to " "boot ROM (%d)!\n", ret);