From a6756da9eace8b4af73e9dea43f1fc2889224c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Conti <jason.conti@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:09:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] p54: Initialize extra_len in p54_tx_80211 This patch fixes a very serious off-by-one bug in the driver, which could leave the device in an unresponsive state. The problem was that the extra_len variable [used to reserve extra scratch buffer space for the firmware] was left uninitialized. Because p54_assign_address later needs the value to reserve additional space, the resulting frame could be to big for the small device's memory window and everything would immediately come to a grinding halt. Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/722185 Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Conti <jason.conti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c index 7834c26c2954..042842e704de 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c @@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ void p54_tx_80211(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb) struct p54_tx_info *p54info; struct p54_hdr *hdr; struct p54_tx_data *txhdr; - unsigned int padding, len, extra_len; + unsigned int padding, len, extra_len = 0; int i, j, ridx; u16 hdr_flags = 0, aid = 0; u8 rate, queue = 0, crypt_offset = 0; -- GitLab