APPLIED: [PATCH 0/3] Resolve multiple rt2800usb kernel oopses

[Tim Gardner]

On 09/07/2011 04:21 PM, leann.ogasawara at canonical.com wrote:
> From: Leann Ogasawara<leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/842955
>
> It was reported that when generating a large amount of traffic over wifi
> the rt2800usb driver would hang the system and multiple kernel oopses
> were captured.  The following upstream patches resolve this issue.  I
> built a test kernel for the bug reported and they have confirmed they
> are able to transfer several gigs of data over wifi and have not
> experienced any oopses or the system hanging.  These patches are clean
> upstream cherry-picks.  I will note that the first patch, "rt2x00: Move
> rt2800_txdone and rt2800_txdone_entry_check to rt2800usb." just moves
> code aroun and allows us to cleanly cherry-pick the other two patches.
> Please consider for Oneiric.  I've also placed these three patches at
> the following location:
>
>    git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ogasawara/ubuntu-oneiric lp842955
>
> Gertjan van Wingerde (1):
>    rt2x00: Move rt2800_txdone and rt2800_txdone_entry_check to
>      rt2800usb.
>
> Stanislaw Gruszka (2):
>    rt2x00: fix crash in rt2800usb_get_txwi
>    rt2x00: fix crash in rt2800usb_write_tx_desc
>
>   drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c |   82 --------------------------
>   drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.h |    1 -
>   drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c |   95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   3 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
>


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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com