Fix up 4KB stack allocation in DVB USB driver.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 14:42:08 EST


Allocating 4KB on the stack can't be healthy.

Dave


diff -Nru a/drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c b/drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c Wed Jan 21 19:10:44 2004
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c Wed Jan 21 19:10:44 2004
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x61, 0x00 };
u8 b1[] = { 0x61 };
- u8 b[ARM_PACKET_SIZE];
+ u8 *b;
char idstring[21];
u8 *firmware = NULL;
size_t firmware_size = 0;
@@ -1202,6 +1202,10 @@
trans_count = 0;
j = 0;

+ b = kmalloc(ARM_PACKET_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (b == NULL)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
for (i = 0; i < firmware_size; i += COMMAND_PACKET_SIZE) {
size = firmware_size - i;
if (size > COMMAND_PACKET_SIZE)
@@ -1228,6 +1232,8 @@
}

result = ttusb_dec_send_command(dec, 0x43, sizeof(b1), b1, NULL, NULL);
+
+ kfree(b);

return result;
}

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