linux-kernel - [patch v2] USB: serial: fix DMA buffers on stack for io

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Date:	Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:42:55 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Johan Hovold <jhovold@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch v2] USB: serial: fix DMA buffers on stack for io_edgeport.c

The original code was passing a stack variable as a dma buffer, so I 
made it an allocated variable.  Instead of adding a bunch of kfree()
calls, I changed all the error return paths to gotos.

Also I noticed that the error checking wasn't correct because
usb_get_descriptor() can return negative values.

While I was at it, I made an unrelated white space change by moving
the unicode_to_ascii() on to one line.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

--- orig/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c	2009-12-30 16:20:35.000000000 +0200
+++ devel/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c	2009-12-30 23:48:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -372,31 +372,32 @@ static void update_edgeport_E2PROM(struc
  ************************************************************************/
 static int get_string(struct usb_device *dev, int Id, char *string, int buflen)
 {
-	struct usb_string_descriptor StringDesc;
-	struct usb_string_descriptor *pStringDesc;
+	struct usb_string_descriptor *StringDesc = NULL;
+	struct usb_string_descriptor *pStringDesc = NULL;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	dbg("%s - USB String ID = %d", __func__, Id);
 
-	if (!usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_STRING, Id,
-					&StringDesc, sizeof(StringDesc)))
-		return 0;
+	StringDesc = kmalloc(sizeof(*StringDesc), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!StringDesc)
+		goto free;
+	if (usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_STRING, Id, StringDesc, sizeof(*StringDesc)) <= 0)
+		goto free;
 
-	pStringDesc = kmalloc(StringDesc.bLength, GFP_KERNEL);
+	pStringDesc = kmalloc(StringDesc->bLength, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pStringDesc)
-		return 0;
+		goto free;
 
-	if (!usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_STRING, Id,
-					pStringDesc, StringDesc.bLength)) {
-		kfree(pStringDesc);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
-	unicode_to_ascii(string, buflen,
-				pStringDesc->wData, pStringDesc->bLength/2);
+	if (usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_STRING, Id, pStringDesc, StringDesc->bLength) <= 0)
+		goto free;
 
-	kfree(pStringDesc);
+	unicode_to_ascii(string, buflen, pStringDesc->wData, pStringDesc->bLength/2);
+	ret = strlen(string);
 	dbg("%s - USB String %s", __func__, string);
-	return strlen(string);
+free:
+	kfree(StringDesc);
+	kfree(pStringDesc);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 
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