[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix error in pointer arithmetic" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Nov 6 10:40:08 UTC 2013


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

    rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix error in pointer arithmetic

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.
-Luis

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>From 5e9d49259083449f5aaac0b80b4f66a49ccee96f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:18:20 -0500
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix error in pointer arithmetic

commit 9473ca6e920a3b9ca902753ce52833657f9221cc upstream.

An error in calculating the offset in an skb causes the driver to read
essential device info from the wrong locations. The main effect is that
automatic gain calculations are nonsense.

Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
index 21bc827..9adb21a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
@@ -343,7 +343,8 @@ bool rtl92cu_rx_query_desc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 					(bool)GET_RX_DESC_PAGGR(pdesc));
 	rx_status->mactime = GET_RX_DESC_TSFL(pdesc);
 	if (phystatus) {
-		p_drvinfo = (struct rx_fwinfo_92c *)(pdesc + RTL_RX_DESC_SIZE);
+		p_drvinfo = (struct rx_fwinfo_92c *)(skb->data +
+						     stats->rx_bufshift);
 		rtl92c_translate_rx_signal_stuff(hw, skb, stats, pdesc,
 						 p_drvinfo);
 	}
--
1.8.3.2





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