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* [PATCH] libertas if_usb: Fix crash on 64-bit machines
@ 2009-10-30 17:45 David Woodhouse
  2009-10-30 18:17 ` David Miller
  2009-10-30 18:23 ` Larry Finger
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: David Woodhouse @ 2009-10-30 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linville; +Cc: libertas-dev, linux-wireless, dcbw, stern, davem

On a 64-bit kernel, skb->tail is an offset, not a pointer. The libertas
usb driver passes it to usb_fill_bulk_urb() anyway, causing interesting
crashes. Fix that by using skb->data instead.

This highlights a problem with usb_fill_bulk_urb(). It doesn't notice
when dma_map_single() fails and return the error to its caller as it
should. In fact it _can't_ currently return the error, since it returns
void.

So this problem was showing up only at unmap time, after we'd already
suffered memory corruption by doing DMA to a bogus address.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c
index 92bc8c5..3fac4ef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static int __if_usb_submit_rx_urb(struct if_usb_card *cardp,
 	/* Fill the receive configuration URB and initialise the Rx call back */
 	usb_fill_bulk_urb(cardp->rx_urb, cardp->udev,
 			  usb_rcvbulkpipe(cardp->udev, cardp->ep_in),
-			  (void *) (skb->tail + (size_t) IPFIELD_ALIGN_OFFSET),
+			  skb->data + IPFIELD_ALIGN_OFFSET,
 			  MRVDRV_ETH_RX_PACKET_BUFFER_SIZE, callbackfn,
 			  cardp);
 

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation


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2009-10-30 17:45 [PATCH] libertas if_usb: Fix crash on 64-bit machines David Woodhouse
2009-10-30 18:17 ` David Miller
2009-10-30 18:23 ` Larry Finger
2009-10-30 18:44   ` Christian Lamparter
2009-10-30 18:51     ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-30 19:08       ` Larry Finger
2009-10-30 19:26       ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-04 19:16         ` John W. Linville
2009-11-04 19:36           ` David Woodhouse
2009-11-04 20:01             ` Dan Williams
2009-11-04 21:16               ` John W. Linville
2009-11-04 22:12                 ` [PATCH] libertas if_usb: tiny usb-rx overhaul Christian Lamparter
2009-11-10  7:02                   ` Dan Williams
2009-10-31  1:41       ` [PATCH] libertas if_usb: Fix crash on 64-bit machines Alan Stern

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