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Re: [PATCH] brcmsmac: handle packet drop on enqueuing correctly

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:07:18PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 03:57 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > From: Piotr Haber <phaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > In the event that tx packet can not be queued by the driver
> > the packet is dropped. Propagate that information to the .tx()
> > callback to make sure the freed packet is not accessed after
> > that.
> > 
> > This has happened causing slab corruptions as reported by
> > Stanislaw Gruszka.
> > 
> > Bug #47721: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47721
> > 
> > That patch is backported from:
> > 
> > commit c4dea35e34f5f46e1701156153a09cce429d1ea9 upstream.
> 
> It applies to stable/linux-3.7.y only.

Ah, here's the 3.7 patch, thanks.

greg k-h
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