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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix buffers on stack
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:28:42PM +0300, Maksim Salau wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:04:24 +0200
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 07:24:37PM +0300, Maksim Salau wrote:
> > > Allocate buffers on HEAP instead of STACK for local structures
> > > that are to be received using usb_control_msg().
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@gmail.com>
> > > Tested-by: Alfredo Rafael Vicente Boix <alviboi@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  
> > 
> > This patch does not apply to usb-next, what did you make it against?
> > 
> > Can you rebase it and resend?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I've created the patch against linux-stable v4.10.12. I've checked history 
> of the driver and it turns out that the patch conflicts with 
> 9b181166f17534a82b4b628b13e524a893715dfc
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git/commit/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c?h=usb-next&id=9b181166f17534a82b4b628b13e524a893715dfc
> 
> There are no conflicting changes, but context has changed.
> I'll rebase and resend shortly.
> 
> The same patch can't be used for stable and for usb-next anymore. Is there
> any chance to backport the fix for stable?

Yes, we can backport it, I'll mark it for stable and do the backport
when it hits Linus's tree after 4.12-rc1 is out.

thanks,

greg k-h