The driver does not count space of radiotap fields when allocating skb for radiotap packet. This leads to kernel panic with the following call trace: ... [67607.676067] [<c152f90f>] error_code+0x67/0x6c [67607.676067] [<c142f831>] ? skb_put+0x91/0xa0 [67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ? ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200] [67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200] [67607.676067] [<f8cf899b>] ipw_net_hard_start_xmit+0x8b/0x90 [ipw2200] [67607.676067] [<f8741c5a>] libipw_xmit+0x55a/0x980 [libipw] [67607.676067] [<c143d3e8>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x218/0x4d0 ... This bug was found by VittGam. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43255 Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c index 935120f..768bf61 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c @@ -10472,7 +10472,7 @@ static void ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx(struct ipw_priv *priv, } else len = src->len; - dst = alloc_skb(len + sizeof(*rt_hdr), GFP_ATOMIC); + dst = alloc_skb(len + sizeof(*rt_hdr) + sizeof(u16)*2, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!dst) continue; -- 1.7.11.7 -- 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
