On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 01:35:28AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: > The EFI firmware on Macs contains a full-fledged network stack for > downloading OS X images from osrecovery.apple.com. Unfortunately > on Macs introduced 2011 and 2012, EFI brings up the Broadcom 4331 > wireless card on every boot and leaves it enabled even after > ExitBootServices has been called. The card continues to assert its IRQ > line, causing spurious interrupts if the IRQ is shared. It also corrupts > memory by DMAing received packets, allowing for remote code execution > over the air. This only stops when a driver is loaded for the wireless > card, which may be never if the driver is not installed or blacklisted. > ... > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79301 > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111781 > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728916 > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895951#c16 > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009819 > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098621 > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149632#c5 > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1279130 > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332732 I think I saw mail about this being applied via the x86 tree. Let me know if I need to do anything more here. -- 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
