Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The commit ba8f6f4ae254 ("iwlwifi: dbg: add dumping special device
> memory") added a termination of name string just to be sure, and this
> seems causing a regression, a GPF triggered at firmware loading.
> Basically we shouldn't modify the firmware data that may be provided
> as read-only.
>
> This patch drops the code that caused the regression and keep the tlv
> data as is.
>
> Fixes: ba8f6f4ae254 ("iwlwifi: dbg: add dumping special device memory")
> BugLink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180344
> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210733
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.
a6616bc9a0af iwlwifi: dbg: Don't touch the tlv data
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