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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: add "ath10k: fix memory leak in rx ring buffer allocation" to 4.13-stable
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:03:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3489239.QvTRPgWxZi@debian64> (raw)

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>

             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-07 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-07 13:03 Christian Lamparter [this message]
2017-09-07 14:29 ` add "ath10k: fix memory leak in rx ring buffer allocation" to 4.13-stable Greg KH

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