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] brcmsmac: handle packet drop on enqueuing correctly
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:33:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130130093349.GB17322@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51029FA6.40209@broadcom.com>
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:07:18PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 03:57 PM, 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
> >
> > That patch is backported from:
> >
> > commit c4dea35e34f5f46e1701156153a09cce429d1ea9 upstream.
>
> It applies to stable/linux-3.7.y only.
Ah, here's the 3.7 patch, thanks.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-30 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-25 14:57 [PATCH] brcmsmac: handle packet drop on enqueuing correctly Arend van Spriel
2013-01-25 15:07 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-01-30 9:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
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