3.13.11.6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]> commit d76744a93246eccdca1106037e8ee29debf48277 upstream. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70191 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77581 It is observed that sometimes Tx packet is downloaded without adding driver's txpd header. This results in firmware parsing garbage data as packet length. Sometimes firmware is unable to read the packet if length comes out as invalid. This stops further traffic and timeout occurs. The root cause is uninitialized fields in tx_info(skb->cb) of packet used to get garbage values. In this case if MWIFIEX_BUF_FLAG_REQUEUED_PKT flag is mistakenly set, txpd header was skipped. This patch makes sure that tx_info is correctly initialized to fix the problem. Reported-by: Andrew Wiley <[email protected]> Reported-by: Linus Gasser <[email protected]> Reported-by: Michael Hirsch <[email protected]> Tested-by: Xinming Hu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Maithili Hinge <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c index 8bb8988..a5c00cc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c @@ -646,6 +646,7 @@ mwifiex_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) } tx_info = MWIFIEX_SKB_TXCB(skb); + memset(tx_info, 0, sizeof(*tx_info)); tx_info->bss_num = priv->bss_num; tx_info->bss_type = priv->bss_type; -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
