The patch below does not apply to the 3.3-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From a75e2ad772b6c26efd702f04be1f9a6414d24f22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Larry Finger <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:48:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Add missing DMA buffer unmapping for PCI drivers In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42976, a system with driver rtl8192se used as an AP suffers from "Out of SW-IOMMU space" errors. These are caused by the DMA buffers used for beacons never being unmapped. This bug was also reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/961618 Reported-and-Tested-by: Da Xue <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]> Cc: Stable <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c index 07dd38e..288b035 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c @@ -912,8 +912,13 @@ static void _rtl_pci_prepare_bcn_tasklet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) memset(&tcb_desc, 0, sizeof(struct rtl_tcb_desc)); ring = &rtlpci->tx_ring[BEACON_QUEUE]; pskb = __skb_dequeue(&ring->queue); - if (pskb) + if (pskb) { + struct rtl_tx_desc *entry = &ring->desc[ring->idx]; + pci_unmap_single(rtlpci->pdev, rtlpriv->cfg->ops->get_desc( + (u8 *) entry, true, HW_DESC_TXBUFF_ADDR), + pskb->len, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE); kfree_skb(pskb); + } /*NB: the beacon data buffer must be 32-bit aligned. */ pskb = ieee80211_beacon_get(hw, mac->vif); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
