netdev - [PATCH net 0/4] Fix on-stack USB buffers

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Date:   Sat, 4 Feb 2017 16:54:51 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 0/4] Fix on-stack USB buffers

Allocating USB buffers on the stack is not portable, and no longer
works on x86_64 (with VMAP_STACK enabled as per default).  This
series fixes all the instances I could find where USB networking
drivers do that.

Ben.

Ben Hutchings (4):
  pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access
  rtl8150: Use heap buffers for all register access
  catc: Combine failure cleanup code in catc_probe()
  catc: Use heap buffer for memory size test

 drivers/net/usb/catc.c    | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)


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