> Transmission of an AP beacon does not call the TX interrupt service routine,
> which usually does the cleanup. Instead, cleanup is handled in a tasklet
> completion routine. Unfortunately, this routine has a serious bug in that it 
> does
> not release the DMA mapping before it frees the skb, thus one IOMMU mapping is
> leaked for each beacon. The test system failed with no free IOMMU mapping 
> slots
> approximately one hour after hostapd was used to start an AP.
> 
> This issue was reported and tested at 
> https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/issues/30.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Kevin Mullican <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kevin Mullican <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Shao Fu <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stable <[email protected]>  [3.18+]

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers.git.

Kalle Valo
--
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

Reply via email to