From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3.6.y] brcmsmac: handle packet drop on enqueuing correctly
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:31:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130130093140.GA17322@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359126493-28270-1-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com>
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:08:13PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> From: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com>
>
> In the event that tx packet can not be queued by the driver
> the packet is dropped. Propagate that information to the .tx()
> callback to make sure the freed packet is not accessed after
> that.
>
> This has happened causing slab corruptions as reported by
> Stanislaw Gruszka.
>
> Bug #47721: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47721
>
> The patch is backported from:
>
> commit c4dea35e34f5f46e1701156153a09cce429d1ea9 upstream.
>
Why not 3.7-stable? There is no more 3.6-stable releases, that kernel
has been end-of-life for a while now.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2013-01-25 15:08 [PATCH v3.6.y] brcmsmac: handle packet drop on enqueuing correctly Arend van Spriel
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