From: "andrea.merello" <andrea.merello@xxxxxxxxx> Orignal code will not detect a DMA mapping failure, causing the HW to attempt a DMA from an invalid address. This patch add the error check and eventually simply drops the TX packet if we can't map it for DMA. Signed-off-by: andrea.merello <andrea.merello@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: andrea merello <andrea.merello@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c index 1c6ac25..9645ed2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c @@ -276,6 +276,13 @@ static void rtl8180_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, mapping = pci_map_single(priv->pdev, skb->data, skb->len, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE); + if (pci_dma_mapping_error(priv->pdev, mapping)) { + kfree_skb(skb); + dev_err(&priv->pdev->dev, "TX DMA mapping error\n"); + return; + + } + tx_flags = RTL818X_TX_DESC_FLAG_OWN | RTL818X_TX_DESC_FLAG_FS | RTL818X_TX_DESC_FLAG_LS | (ieee80211_get_tx_rate(dev, info)->hw_value << 24) | -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html