Submitting a cover letter and the patch itself with identical Subject lines
is not correct.
You must also use proper "[PATCH $(TREE) X/Y] " prefixes in your Subject
lines as well.
Please format your Subject lines correctly and resubmit, thank you.
usb_fill_bulk_urb() receives buffer length parameter 8 bytes larger
than what's allocated by alloc_skb(); This seems to be a problem with
older (pegasus usb-1.1) devices, which may silently return more data
than the maximal packet length.
Going through the chip's documentation i figured out the et
As noticed by Lincoln Ramsay some old (usb 1.1) Pegasus
based devices may actually return more bytes than the specified in the
datasheet
amount. That would not be a problem if the allocated space for the SKB was
equal to the parameter passed to usb_fill_bulk_urb(). Some poor bugger (i
reall