[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "rtlwifi: Fix the usage of the wrong variable in usb.c" has been added to staging queue

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Tue Feb 12 21:17:49 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rtlwifi: Fix the usage of the wrong variable in usb.c

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From ba7ed08a3a8e75cd87f437adb38a5e5c4b215d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:24:25 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Fix the usage of the wrong variable in usb.c

commit 0a06ad8e3a1cb5311b7dbafde45410aa1bce9d40 upstream.

In routine _rtl_rx_pre_process(), skb_dequeue() is called to get an skb;
however, the wrong variable name is used in subsequent calls.

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
index 8fa144f..17cd028 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -542,8 +542,8 @@ static void _rtl_rx_pre_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	WARN_ON(skb_queue_empty(&rx_queue));
 	while (!skb_queue_empty(&rx_queue)) {
 		_skb = skb_dequeue(&rx_queue);
-		_rtl_usb_rx_process_agg(hw, skb);
-		ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(hw, skb);
+		_rtl_usb_rx_process_agg(hw, _skb);
+		ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(hw, _skb);
 	}
 }

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1.7.9.5





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