From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: add "ath10k: fix memory leak in rx ring buffer allocation" to 4.13-stable
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:29:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170907142922.GA9306@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3489239.QvTRPgWxZi@debian64>
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 03:03:24PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> please add this patch:
>
> Subject: ath10k: fix memory leak in rx ring buffer allocation
> Author: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@qti.qualcomm.com>
> commit: f35a7f91f66af528b3ee1921de16bea31d347ab0 [0]
>
> to the upcoming 4.13 stable release.
>
> The patch fixes a race condition that leads to crashes due memory
> exhaustions. A user (tetsuo55) has reported it helped in his situation:
> <https://forum.lede-project.org/t/netgear-r7800-exploration-ipq8065-qca9984/285/469>
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>
> [0] <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k?id=f35a7f91f66af528b3ee1921de16bea31d347ab0>
Looks like it belongs in older kernels as well, so I've backported it
further, thanks.
greg k-h
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2017-09-07 13:03 add "ath10k: fix memory leak in rx ring buffer allocation" to 4.13-stable Christian Lamparter
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