On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:59:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> USB: mos7720: fix broken control requests
>
> to the 3.10-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:
> usb-mos7720-fix-broken-control-requests.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <[email protected]> know about it.
Greg,
You should probably hold this one off (from all three stable trees)
until the memory-flag fix is in Linus' tree as well:
http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=137665695103660&w=2
Johan
> From ef6c8c1d733e244f0499035be0dabe1f4ed98c6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:27:34 +0200
> Subject: USB: mos7720: fix broken control requests
>
> From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
>
> commit ef6c8c1d733e244f0499035be0dabe1f4ed98c6f upstream.
>
> The parallel-port code of the drivers used a stack allocated
> control-request buffer for asynchronous (and possibly deferred) control
> requests. This not only violates the no-DMA-from-stack requirement but
> could also lead to corrupt control requests being submitted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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