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staging: usbip: bugfix for stack corruption on 64-bit architectures
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Previously a 6 byte array (buf) was erroneously cast to a 8 byte long
(event_bits) on 64-bit architectures which caused a stack corruption.

Signed-off-by: Bart Westgeest <bart@elbrys.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Bart Westgeest authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jun 12, 2012
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/staging/usbip/vhci_hcd.c
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Expand Up @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int vhci_hub_status(struct usb_hcd *hcd, char *buf)
int retval = 0;

/* the enough buffer is allocated according to USB_MAXCHILDREN */
unsigned long *event_bits = (unsigned long *) buf;
u32 *event_bits = (unsigned long *) buf;
int rhport;
int changed = 0;

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