[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "[media] lirc_zilog: Don't use dynamic static allocation" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    [media] lirc_zilog: Don't use dynamic static allocation

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a7955b8084546f817eeed7aa0144b883fab74969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab at samsung.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:16:47 -0300
Subject: [media] lirc_zilog: Don't use dynamic static allocation

commit ac5b4b6bf0c84c48d7e2e3fce22e35b04282ba76 upstream.

Dynamic static allocation is evil, as Kernel stack is too low, and
ompilation complains about it on some archs:
	drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c:967:1: warning: 'read' uses dynamic stack allocation [enabled by default]
Instead, let's enforce a limit for the buffer to be 64. That should
be more than enough.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab at samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil at cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
index 76ea4a8..56a96d3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@
 #include <media/lirc_dev.h>
 #include <media/lirc.h>

+/* Max transfer size done by I2C transfer functions */
+#define MAX_XFER_SIZE  64
+
 struct IR;

 struct IR_rx {
@@ -942,7 +945,14 @@ static ssize_t read(struct file *filep, char *outbuf, size_t n, loff_t *ppos)
 			schedule();
 			set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 		} else {
-			unsigned char buf[rbuf->chunk_size];
+			unsigned char buf[MAX_XFER_SIZE];
+
+			if (rbuf->chunk_size > sizeof(buf)) {
+				zilog_error("chunk_size is too big (%d)!\n",
+					    rbuf->chunk_size);
+				ret = -EINVAL;
+				break;
+			}
 			m = lirc_buffer_read(rbuf, buf);
 			if (m == rbuf->chunk_size) {
 				ret = copy_to_user((void *)outbuf+written, buf,
--
1.8.3.2