Larry Finger <[email protected]> writes:

> These drivers use 9100-byte receive buffers, thus allocating an skb requires
> an O(3) memory allocation. Under heavy memory loads and fragmentation, such
> a request can fail. Previous versions of the driver have dropped the packet
> and reused the old buffer; however, the new version introduced a bug in that
> it released the old buffer before trying to allocate a new one. The previous
> method is implemented here. The skb is unmapped before any attempt is made to
> allocate another.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stable <[email protected]>  [v3.18]
> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers.git.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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