In the major update of the rtlwifi-family of drivers, there was an editing mistake. Unfortunately, this particular error leads to memory corruption that silently leads to failure of the system. This patch is one of three needed to fix the kernel regression reported at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88951.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]> Reported-by: Catalin Iacob <[email protected]> Tested-by: Catalin Iacob <[email protected]> Cc: Catalin Iacob <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c index dc3d20b..0916275 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.c @@ -720,16 +720,15 @@ u32 rtl92ce_get_desc(u8 *p_desc, bool istx, u8 desc_name) break; } } else { - struct rx_desc_92c *pdesc = (struct rx_desc_92c *)p_desc; switch (desc_name) { case HW_DESC_OWN: - ret = GET_RX_DESC_OWN(pdesc); + ret = GET_RX_DESC_OWN(p_desc); break; case HW_DESC_RXPKT_LEN: - ret = GET_RX_DESC_PKT_LEN(pdesc); + ret = GET_RX_DESC_PKT_LEN(p_desc); break; case HW_DESC_RXBUFF_ADDR: - ret = GET_RX_STATUS_DESC_BUFF_ADDR(pdesc); + ret = GET_RX_DESC_BUFF_ADDR(p_desc); break; default: RT_ASSERT(false, "ERR rxdesc :%d not process\n", -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
