ieee802154: atusb: do not use the stack for address fetching to make it DMA able

From 4.9 we should really avoid using the stack here as this will not be DMA
able on various platforms. This changes a buffer that was introduced in the
4.10 merge window.

Fixes: 6cc33eb ("ieee802154: atusb: try to read permanent extended
address from device")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]>

Author: Stefan Schmidt

drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c

@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ static int atusb_get_and_show_chip(struct atusb *atusb)
 static int atusb_set_extended_addr(struct atusb *atusb)
 {
 	struct usb_device *usb_dev = atusb->usb_dev;
-	unsigned char buffer[IEEE802154_EXTENDED_ADDR_LEN];
+	unsigned char *buffer;
 	__le64 extended_addr;
 	u64 addr;
 	int ret;
@@ -733,13 +733,18 @@ static int atusb_set_extended_addr(struct atusb *atusb)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	buffer = kmalloc(IEEE802154_EXTENDED_ADDR_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buffer)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	/* Firmware is new enough so we fetch the address from EEPROM */
 	ret = atusb_control_msg(atusb, usb_rcvctrlpipe(usb_dev, 0),
 				ATUSB_EUI64_READ, ATUSB_REQ_FROM_DEV, 0, 0,
 				buffer, IEEE802154_EXTENDED_ADDR_LEN, 1000);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		dev_err(&usb_dev->dev, "failed to fetch extended address, random address set\n");
 		ieee802154_random_extended_addr(&atusb->hw->phy->perm_extended_addr);
+		kfree(buffer);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
@@ -755,6 +760,7 @@ static int atusb_set_extended_addr(struct atusb *atusb)
 			&addr);
 	}
 
+	kfree(buffer);
 	return ret;
 }