On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 01:10:05AM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > commit: b25026981aecde3685dd0e45ad980fff9f528daa > From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:57:14 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi: fix skb usage after free > > Since > > commit a120e912eb51e347f36c71b60a1d13af74d30e83 > Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> > Date: Fri Feb 19 15:47:33 2010 -0800 > > iwlwifi: sanity check before counting number of tfds can be free > > we use skb->data after calling ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(), which > could free skb instantly. > > On current kernels I do not observe practical problems related with > bug, but on 2.6.35.y it cause random system hangs when stressing > wireless link. > > Cc: [email protected] # 2.6.32+
This doesn't apply to the .32 or .33-stable kernels. If you wish to see it there, can someone please provide a backport and send it to [email protected] ? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
