This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Change buffer allocation for synchronous reads
to the 3.5-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-rtl8192cu-change-buffer-allocation-for-synchronous-reads.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 3ce4d85b76010525adedcc2555fa164bf706a2f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:37:28 -0500
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Change buffer allocation for synchronous reads
From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
commit 3ce4d85b76010525adedcc2555fa164bf706a2f3 upstream.
In commit a7959c1, the USB part of rtlwifi was switched to convert
_usb_read_sync() to using a preallocated buffer rather than one
that has been acquired using kmalloc. Although this routine is named
as though it were synchronous, there seem to be simultaneous users,
and the selection of the index to the data buffer is not multi-user
safe. This situation is addressed by adding a new spinlock. The routine
cannot sleep, thus a mutex is not allowed.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c | 14 +++++++++++---
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -131,15 +131,19 @@ static u32 _usb_read_sync(struct rtl_pri
u8 request;
u16 wvalue;
u16 index;
- __le32 *data = &rtlpriv->usb_data[rtlpriv->usb_data_index];
+ __le32 *data;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&rtlpriv->locks.usb_lock, flags);
+ if (++rtlpriv->usb_data_index >= RTL_USB_MAX_RX_COUNT)
+ rtlpriv->usb_data_index = 0;
+ data = &rtlpriv->usb_data[rtlpriv->usb_data_index];
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtlpriv->locks.usb_lock, flags);
request = REALTEK_USB_VENQT_CMD_REQ;
index = REALTEK_USB_VENQT_CMD_IDX; /* n/a */
wvalue = (u16)addr;
_usbctrl_vendorreq_sync_read(udev, request, wvalue, index, data, len);
- if (++rtlpriv->usb_data_index >= RTL_USB_MAX_RX_COUNT)
- rtlpriv->usb_data_index = 0;
return le32_to_cpu(*data);
}
@@ -951,6 +955,10 @@ int __devinit rtl_usb_probe(struct usb_i
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rtlpriv->usb_data)
return -ENOMEM;
+
+ /* this spin lock must be initialized early */
+ spin_lock_init(&rtlpriv->locks.usb_lock);
+
rtlpriv->usb_data_index = 0;
init_completion(&rtlpriv->firmware_loading_complete);
SET_IEEE80211_DEV(hw, &intf->dev);
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
@@ -1555,6 +1555,7 @@ struct rtl_locks {
spinlock_t rf_ps_lock;
spinlock_t rf_lock;
spinlock_t waitq_lock;
+ spinlock_t usb_lock;
/*Dual mac*/
spinlock_t cck_and_rw_pagea_lock;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.5/mac80211-fix-crash-with-single-queue-drivers.patch
queue-3.5/rtlwifi-rtl8192cu-change-buffer-allocation-for-synchronous-reads.patch
queue-3.5/rtlwifi-rtl8192de-fix-phy-based-version-calculation.patch
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