This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: rtl8xxxu: Fix skb misuse in TX queue selection
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wifi-rtl8xxxu-fix-skb-misuse-in-tx-queue-selection.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ed4cd1eb79b26a420a9ded819c5e18ce645c8a6d
Author: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 31 19:12:36 2022 +0300
wifi: rtl8xxxu: Fix skb misuse in TX queue selection
[ Upstream commit edd5747aa12ed61a5ecbfa58d3908623fddbf1e8 ]
rtl8xxxu_queue_select() selects the wrong TX queues because it's
reading memory from the wrong address. It expects to find ieee80211_hdr
at skb->data, but that's not the case after skb_push(). Move the call
to rtl8xxxu_queue_select() before the call to skb_push().
Fixes: 26f1fad29ad9 ("New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)")
Signed-off-by: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7fa4819a-4f20-b2af-b7a6-8ee01ac49295@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
index dd345ed1a717..ccd76c1da40c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
@@ -4955,6 +4955,8 @@ static void rtl8xxxu_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
if (control && control->sta)
sta = control->sta;
+ queue = rtl8xxxu_queue_select(hw, skb);
+
tx_desc = skb_push(skb, tx_desc_size);
memset(tx_desc, 0, tx_desc_size);
@@ -4967,7 +4969,6 @@ static void rtl8xxxu_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
is_broadcast_ether_addr(ieee80211_get_DA(hdr)))
tx_desc->txdw0 |= TXDESC_BROADMULTICAST;
- queue = rtl8xxxu_queue_select(hw, skb);
tx_desc->txdw1 = cpu_to_le32(queue << TXDESC_QUEUE_SHIFT);
if (tx_info->control.hw_key) {
