From: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
To: linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.4] iwlwifi: fix a potential race in receive buffer allocation
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:09:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336079364-16222-1-git-send-email-wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> (raw)
From: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
The driver can potentially unmap pages that
have not been mapped yet. Fix this race
condition.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
---
this patch will be also available from wireless branch on
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.git
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
index aa7aea1..173275f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ static void iwlagn_rx_allocate(struct iwl_trans *trans, gfp_t priority)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
BUG_ON(rxb->page);
- rxb->page = page;
/* Get physical address of the RB */
rxb->page_dma = dma_map_page(trans->dev, page, 0,
PAGE_SIZE << hw_params(trans).rx_page_order,
@@ -320,6 +319,9 @@ static void iwlagn_rx_allocate(struct iwl_trans *trans, gfp_t priority)
/* and also 256 byte aligned! */
BUG_ON(rxb->page_dma & DMA_BIT_MASK(8));
+ /* Page *must* be mapped before before updating the rxb. */
+ rxb->page = page;
+
spin_lock_irqsave(&rxq->lock, flags);
list_add_tail(&rxb->list, &rxq->rx_free);
--
1.7.0.4
next reply other threads:[~2012-05-03 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-03 21:09 Wey-Yi Guy [this message]
2012-05-08 14:05 ` [PATCH 3.4] iwlwifi: fix a potential race in receive buffer allocation Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-05-08 17:00 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2012-05-08 18:34 ` Venkataraman, Meenakshi
2012-05-09 7:53 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
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