[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ath5k: fix tx path skb leaks" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

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

    ath5k: fix tx path skb leaks

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 73139ac3d25b98562cdfb4ec28758d930d4d3f23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:40:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ath5k: fix tx path skb leaks

commit 596ab5ec3bf10a22be30d7cb1d903a4b83fd607c upstream.

ieee80211_free_txskb() needs to be used instead of dev_kfree_skb_any for
tx packets passed to the driver from mac80211

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c         |    4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/mac80211-ops.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
index 44ad6fe..10a9985 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ ath5k_txbuf_free_skb(struct ath5k_hw *ah, struct ath5k_buf *bf)
 		return;
 	dma_unmap_single(ah->dev, bf->skbaddr, bf->skb->len,
 			DMA_TO_DEVICE);
-	dev_kfree_skb_any(bf->skb);
+	ieee80211_free_txskb(ah->hw, bf->skb);
 	bf->skb = NULL;
 	bf->skbaddr = 0;
 	bf->desc->ds_data = 0;
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ ath5k_tx_queue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	return;

 drop_packet:
-	dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+	ieee80211_free_txskb(hw, skb);
 }

 static void
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/mac80211-ops.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/mac80211-ops.c
index 22b80af..4c8ba4d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/mac80211-ops.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/mac80211-ops.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ ath5k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	u16 qnum = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);

 	if (WARN_ON(qnum >= ah->ah_capabilities.cap_queues.q_tx_num)) {
-		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+		ieee80211_free_txskb(hw, skb);
 		return;
 	}

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