Patch "brcmfmac: Make skb header writable before use" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    brcmfmac: Make skb header writable before use

to the 3.18-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:
     brcmfmac-make-skb-header-writable-before-use.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 9cc4b7cb86cbcc6330a3faa8cd65268cd2d3c227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:15:06 +0100
Subject: brcmfmac: Make skb header writable before use

From: James Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>

commit 9cc4b7cb86cbcc6330a3faa8cd65268cd2d3c227 upstream.

The driver was making changes to the skb_header without
ensuring it was writable (i.e. uncloned).
This patch also removes some boiler plate header size
checking/adjustment code as that is also handled by the
skb_cow_header function used to make header writable.

Signed-off-by: James Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c |   19 +++++--------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
@@ -213,22 +213,13 @@ static netdev_tx_t brcmf_netdev_start_xm
 		goto done;
 	}
 
-	/* Make sure there's enough room for any header */
-	if (skb_headroom(skb) < drvr->hdrlen) {
-		struct sk_buff *skb2;
-
-		brcmf_dbg(INFO, "%s: insufficient headroom\n",
+	/* Make sure there's enough writable headroom*/
+	ret = skb_cow_head(skb, drvr->hdrlen);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		brcmf_err("%s: skb_cow_head failed\n",
 			  brcmf_ifname(drvr, ifp->bssidx));
-		drvr->bus_if->tx_realloc++;
-		skb2 = skb_realloc_headroom(skb, drvr->hdrlen);
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
-		skb = skb2;
-		if (skb == NULL) {
-			brcmf_err("%s: skb_realloc_headroom failed\n",
-				  brcmf_ifname(drvr, ifp->bssidx));
-			ret = -ENOMEM;
-			goto done;
-		}
+		goto done;
 	}
 
 	/* validate length for ether packet */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.hughes@raspberrypi.org are

queue-3.18/brcmfmac-make-skb-header-writable-before-use.patch
queue-3.18/brcmfmac-ensure-pointer-correctly-set-if-skb-data-location-changes.patch