Re: [PATCH] Fixes buffer allocation size and the actual packet length;

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[PATCH] Fixes buffer allocation size and the actual packet length;

usb_fill_bulk_urb() receives buffer length parameter 8 bytes larger than what's allocated by alloc_skb(); This seems to be a problem with older (pegasus usb-1.1) devices, which may silently return more data than the maximal packet length. Going through the chip's documentation i figured out the

[PATCH] Fixes buffer allocation size and the actual packet length;

As noticed by Lincoln Ramsay some old (usb 1.1) Pegasus based devices may actually return more bytes than the specified in the datasheet amount. That would not be a problem if the allocated space for the SKB was equal to the parameter passed to usb_fill_bulk_urb(). Some