From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Use usb anchor facilities to manage urbs
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:08:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493DEF32.5070403@yahoo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493d9c06.XJn1gNkms3JqErgr%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Larry Finger wrote:
> When SLUB debugging is enabled in the kernel, and the boot command includes
> the option "slub_debug=P", rtl8187 encounters a GPF due to a read-after-free
> of a urb.
>
> Following the example of changes in p54usb to fix the same problem, the code
> has been modified to use the usb_anchor_urb() method, which avoids the problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Just built it and using it right now.
Hin-Tak
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 22:13 [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Use usb anchor facilities to manage urbs Larry Finger
2008-12-09 4:08 ` Hin-Tak Leung [this message]
2008-12-09 15:13 ` Larry Finger
2008-12-10 0:19 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2008-12-10 0:16 ` Johannes Berg
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