[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "b43: Fix machine check error due to improper access of B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu May 1 19:17:57 UTC 2014


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

    b43: Fix machine check error due to improper access of B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.1.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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Subject: b43: Fix machine check error due to improper access of
 B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR
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commit 12cd43c6ed6da7bf7c5afbd74da6959cda6d056b upstream.

Register B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR is 16 bit one, so accessing it with 32b
functions isn't safe. On my machine it causes delayed (!) CPU exception:

Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 4: b200000000070f0f
mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 164083803dc
mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:20fc2 TIME 1396650505 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 0
mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii'
mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Processor context corrupt
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal machine check on current CPU
Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff)

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c
index 05ee7f1..24ccbe9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c
@@ -5176,22 +5176,22 @@ static void b43_nphy_channel_setup(struct b43_wldev *dev,
 	int ch = new_channel->hw_value;

 	u16 old_band_5ghz;
-	u32 tmp32;
+	u16 tmp16;

 	old_band_5ghz =
 		b43_phy_read(dev, B43_NPHY_BANDCTL) & B43_NPHY_BANDCTL_5GHZ;
 	if (new_channel->band == IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ && !old_band_5ghz) {
-		tmp32 = b43_read32(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR);
-		b43_write32(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR, tmp32 | 4);
+		tmp16 = b43_read16(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR);
+		b43_write16(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR, tmp16 | 4);
 		b43_phy_set(dev, B43_PHY_B_BBCFG, 0xC000);
-		b43_write32(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR, tmp32);
+		b43_write16(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR, tmp16);
 		b43_phy_set(dev, B43_NPHY_BANDCTL, B43_NPHY_BANDCTL_5GHZ);
 	} else if (new_channel->band == IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ && old_band_5ghz) {
 		b43_phy_mask(dev, B43_NPHY_BANDCTL, ~B43_NPHY_BANDCTL_5GHZ);
-		tmp32 = b43_read32(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR);
-		b43_write32(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR, tmp32 | 4);
+		tmp16 = b43_read16(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR);
+		b43_write16(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR, tmp16 | 4);
 		b43_phy_mask(dev, B43_PHY_B_BBCFG, 0x3FFF);
-		b43_write32(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR, tmp32);
+		b43_write16(dev, B43_MMIO_PSM_PHY_HDR, tmp16);
 	}

 	b43_chantab_phy_upload(dev, e);
--
1.9.1





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