This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rtlwifi: Handle previous allocation failures when freeing device memory

to the 3.3-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     
rtlwifi-handle-previous-allocation-failures-when-freeing-device-memory.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 7f66c2f93e5779625c10d262c84537427a2673ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Graham <simon.gra...@virtualcomputer.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:07:38 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: Handle previous allocation failures when freeing device memory

From: Simon Graham <simon.gra...@virtualcomputer.com>

commit 7f66c2f93e5779625c10d262c84537427a2673ca upstream.

Handle previous allocation failures when freeing device memory

Signed-off-by: Simon Graham <simon.gra...@virtualcomputer.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linvi...@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
@@ -1157,10 +1157,12 @@ static void _rtl_pci_free_tx_ring(struct
                ring->idx = (ring->idx + 1) % ring->entries;
        }
 
-       pci_free_consistent(rtlpci->pdev,
-                           sizeof(*ring->desc) * ring->entries,
-                           ring->desc, ring->dma);
-       ring->desc = NULL;
+       if (ring->desc) {
+               pci_free_consistent(rtlpci->pdev,
+                                   sizeof(*ring->desc) * ring->entries,
+                                   ring->desc, ring->dma);
+               ring->desc = NULL;
+       }
 }
 
 static void _rtl_pci_free_rx_ring(struct rtl_pci *rtlpci)
@@ -1184,12 +1186,14 @@ static void _rtl_pci_free_rx_ring(struct
                        kfree_skb(skb);
                }
 
-               pci_free_consistent(rtlpci->pdev,
+               if (rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc) {
+                       pci_free_consistent(rtlpci->pdev,
                                    sizeof(*rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].
                                           desc) * rtlpci->rxringcount,
                                    rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc,
                                    rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].dma);
-               rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc = NULL;
+                       rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc = NULL;
+               }
        }
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
simon.gra...@virtualcomputer.com are

queue-3.3/rtlwifi-handle-previous-allocation-failures-when-freeing-device-memory.patch
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