Patch "video: fbdev: udlfb: Fix buffer on stack" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    video: fbdev: udlfb: Fix buffer on stack

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     video-fbdev-udlfb-fix-buffer-on-stack.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 15:16:04 CET 2018
From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 13:47:53 +0200
Subject: video: fbdev: udlfb: Fix buffer on stack

From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 45f580c42e5c125d55dbd8099750a1998de3d917 ]

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>
Cc: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
@@ -1490,15 +1490,25 @@ static struct device_attribute fb_device
 static int dlfb_select_std_channel(struct dlfb_data *dev)
 {
 	int ret;
-	u8 set_def_chn[] = {	   0x57, 0xCD, 0xDC, 0xA7,
+	void *buf;
+	static const u8 set_def_chn[] = {
+				0x57, 0xCD, 0xDC, 0xA7,
 				0x1C, 0x88, 0x5E, 0x15,
 				0x60, 0xFE, 0xC6, 0x97,
 				0x16, 0x3D, 0x47, 0xF2  };
 
+	buf = kmemdup(set_def_chn, sizeof(set_def_chn), GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	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;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maksim.salau@gmail.com are

queue-3.18/video-fbdev-udlfb-fix-buffer-on-stack.patch