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[3.19.y-ckt,stable] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Fix kernel panic" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

Message ID 1454029658-10120-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
State New
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Kamal Mostafa Jan. 29, 2016, 1:07 a.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Fix kernel panic

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt14.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 61ac841299a2ace1cca306ff829dda14c519d4d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:05:08 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Fix kernel panic

commit f99551a2d39dc26ea03dc6761be11ac913eb2d57 upstream.

In commit 38506ecefab9 (rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Start modification for new
drivers), a bug was introduced that causes a NULL pointer dereference.
As this bug only affects the infrequently used RTL8192EE and only under
low-memory conditions, it has taken a long time for the bug to show up.

The bug was reported on the linux-wireless mailing list and also at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/ as
bug #1527603 (kernel crashes due to rtl8192ee driver on ubuntu 15.10).

Fixes: 38506ecefab9 ("rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Start modification for new drivers")
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
index 8c45cf4..348d5aec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
@@ -801,7 +801,9 @@  static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 								      hw_queue);
 			if (rx_remained_cnt == 0)
 				return;
-
+			buffer_desc = &rtlpci->rx_ring[rxring_idx].buffer_desc[
+				rtlpci->rx_ring[rxring_idx].idx];
+			pdesc = (struct rtl_rx_desc *)skb->data;
 		} else {	/* rx descriptor */
 			pdesc = &rtlpci->rx_ring[rxring_idx].desc[
 				rtlpci->rx_ring[rxring_idx].idx];
@@ -824,13 +826,6 @@  static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 		new_skb = dev_alloc_skb(rtlpci->rxbuffersize);
 		if (unlikely(!new_skb))
 			goto no_new;
-		if (rtlpriv->use_new_trx_flow) {
-			buffer_desc =
-			  &rtlpci->rx_ring[rxring_idx].buffer_desc
-				[rtlpci->rx_ring[rxring_idx].idx];
-			/*means rx wifi info*/
-			pdesc = (struct rtl_rx_desc *)skb->data;
-		}
 		memset(&rx_status , 0 , sizeof(rx_status));
 		rtlpriv->cfg->ops->query_rx_desc(hw, &stats,
 						 &rx_status, (u8 *)pdesc, skb);