From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Fix kernel panic
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:36:35 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151230153635.2E8E460222@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1450739108-24121-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> In commit 38506ecefab9 (rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Start modification for new
> drivers), a bug was introduced that causes a NULL pointer dereference.
> As this bug only affects the infrequently used RTL8192EE and only under
> low-memory conditions, it has taken a long time for the bug to show up.
>
> The bug was reported on the linux-wireless mailing list and also at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/ as
> bug #1527603 (kernel crashes due to rtl8192ee driver on ubuntu 15.10).
>
> Fixes: 38506ecefab9 ("rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Start modification for new drivers")
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.
Kalle Valo
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2015-12-21 23:05 [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl_pci: Fix kernel panic Larry Finger
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