From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43874 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752712AbdEIJoc (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2017 05:44:32 -0400 Subject: Patch "mwifiex: remove redundant dma padding in AMSDU" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: huxm@marvell.com, akarwar@marvell.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, kvalo@codeaurora.org Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 11:44:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1494323042178151@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mwifiex: remove redundant dma padding in AMSDU to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mwifiex-remove-redundant-dma-padding-in-amsdu.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 5f0a221f59ad6b72202ef9c6e232086de8c336f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xinming Hu Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:41:24 +0530 Subject: mwifiex: remove redundant dma padding in AMSDU From: Xinming Hu commit 5f0a221f59ad6b72202ef9c6e232086de8c336f2 upstream. We already ensure 64 bytes alignment and add padding if required during skb_aggr allocation. Alignment and padding in mwifiex_11n_form_amsdu_txpd() is redundant. We may end up accessing more data than allocated size with this. This patch fixes following issue by removing redundant padding. [ 370.241338] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffffffffc046946a len:3550 put:72 head:ffff880000110000 data:ffff8800001100e4 tail:0xec2 end:0xec0 dev: [ 370.241374] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 370.241382] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:104! 370.244032] Call Trace: [ 370.244041] [] skb_put+0x44/0x45 [ 370.244055] [] mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt+0x1e9/0xa50 [mwifiex] [ 370.244067] [] mwifiex_wmm_process_tx+0x44a/0x6b7 [mwifiex] [ 370.244074] [] ? 0xffffffffc0411eb8 [ 370.244084] [] mwifiex_main_process+0x476/0x5a5 [mwifiex] [ 370.244098] [] mwifiex_main_process+0x5a3/0x5a5 [mwifiex] [ 370.244113] [] process_one_work+0x1a4/0x309 [ 370.244123] [] worker_thread+0x20c/0x2ee [ 370.244130] [] ? rescuer_thread+0x383/0x383 [ 370.244136] [] ? rescuer_thread+0x383/0x383 [ 370.244143] [] kthread+0x11c/0x124 [ 370.244150] [] ? kthread_parkme+0x24/0x24 [ 370.244157] [] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [ 370.244168] [] ? kthread_parkme+0x24/0x24 Fixes: 84b313b35f8158d ("mwifiex: make tx packet 64 byte DMA aligned") Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c | 19 +++++++------------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/11n_aggr.c @@ -101,13 +101,6 @@ mwifiex_11n_form_amsdu_txpd(struct mwifi { struct txpd *local_tx_pd; struct mwifiex_txinfo *tx_info = MWIFIEX_SKB_TXCB(skb); - unsigned int pad; - int headroom = (priv->adapter->iface_type == - MWIFIEX_USB) ? 0 : INTF_HEADER_LEN; - - pad = ((void *)skb->data - sizeof(*local_tx_pd) - - headroom - NULL) & (MWIFIEX_DMA_ALIGN_SZ - 1); - skb_push(skb, pad); skb_push(skb, sizeof(*local_tx_pd)); @@ -121,12 +114,10 @@ mwifiex_11n_form_amsdu_txpd(struct mwifi local_tx_pd->bss_num = priv->bss_num; local_tx_pd->bss_type = priv->bss_type; /* Always zero as the data is followed by struct txpd */ - local_tx_pd->tx_pkt_offset = cpu_to_le16(sizeof(struct txpd) + - pad); + local_tx_pd->tx_pkt_offset = cpu_to_le16(sizeof(struct txpd)); local_tx_pd->tx_pkt_type = cpu_to_le16(PKT_TYPE_AMSDU); local_tx_pd->tx_pkt_length = cpu_to_le16(skb->len - - sizeof(*local_tx_pd) - - pad); + sizeof(*local_tx_pd)); if (tx_info->flags & MWIFIEX_BUF_FLAG_TDLS_PKT) local_tx_pd->flags |= MWIFIEX_TXPD_FLAGS_TDLS_PACKET; @@ -190,7 +181,11 @@ mwifiex_11n_aggregate_pkt(struct mwifiex ra_list_flags); return -1; } - skb_reserve(skb_aggr, MWIFIEX_MIN_DATA_HEADER_LEN); + + /* skb_aggr->data already 64 byte align, just reserve bus interface + * header and txpd. + */ + skb_reserve(skb_aggr, headroom + sizeof(struct txpd)); tx_info_aggr = MWIFIEX_SKB_TXCB(skb_aggr); memset(tx_info_aggr, 0, sizeof(*tx_info_aggr)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from huxm@marvell.com are queue-4.4/mwifiex-remove-redundant-dma-padding-in-amsdu.patch