linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.16 084/134] usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix buffers on stack

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Date:   Sat, 26 Aug 2017 01:37:00 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        Alfredo Rafael Vicente Boix <alviboi@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16 084/134] usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix buffers on
 stack

On Sat, 2017-08-19 at 09:29 +0300, Maksim Salau wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:13:20 +0100
> Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 3.16.47-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@...il.com>
> > 
> > commit 942a48730faf149ccbf3e12ac718aee120bb3529 upstream.
> > 
> > Allocate buffers on HEAP instead of STACK for local structures
> > that are to be received using usb_control_msg().
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> The change has a memory leak, which is fixed by the commit
> 0bd193d62b4270a2a7a09da43ad1034c7ca5b3d3
> If the commit is not in your queue, please add it.

Thanks, I've added this.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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