This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rt2x00usb: fix anchor initialization
to the 4.9-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:
rt2x00usb-fix-anchor-initialization.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0488a6121dfe6cbd44de15ea3627913b7549a1e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 12:18:10 +0100
Subject: rt2x00usb: fix anchor initialization
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 0488a6121dfe6cbd44de15ea3627913b7549a1e9 upstream.
If device fail to initialize we can OOPS in rt2x00lib_remove_dev(), due
to using uninitialized usb_anchor structure:
[ 855.435820] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x1000 with error -19
[ 855.435826] ieee80211 phy3: rt2800_probe_rt: Error - Invalid RT chipset 0x0000, rev 0000 detected
[ 855.435829] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to allocate device
[ 855.435845] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
[ 855.435900] IP: _raw_spin_lock_irq+0xd/0x30
[ 855.435926] PGD 0
[ 855.435953] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
<snip>
[ 855.437011] Call Trace:
[ 855.437029] ? usb_kill_anchored_urbs+0x27/0xc0
[ 855.437061] rt2x00lib_remove_dev+0x190/0x1c0 [rt2x00lib]
[ 855.437097] rt2x00lib_probe_dev+0x246/0x7a0 [rt2x00lib]
[ 855.437149] ? ieee80211_roc_setup+0x9e/0xd0 [mac80211]
[ 855.437183] ? __kmalloc+0x1af/0x1f0
[ 855.437207] ? rt2x00usb_probe+0x13d/0xc50 [rt2x00usb]
[ 855.437240] rt2x00usb_probe+0x155/0xc50 [rt2x00usb]
[ 855.437273] rt2800usb_probe+0x15/0x20 [rt2800usb]
[ 855.437304] usb_probe_interface+0x159/0x2d0
[ 855.437333] driver_probe_device+0x2bb/0x460
Patch changes initialization sequence to fix the problem.
Cc: Vishal Thanki <vishalthanki@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 8b4c0009313f ("rt2x00usb: Use usb anchor to manage URB")
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
@@ -824,10 +824,6 @@ int rt2x00usb_probe(struct usb_interface
if (retval)
goto exit_free_device;
- retval = rt2x00lib_probe_dev(rt2x00dev);
- if (retval)
- goto exit_free_reg;
-
rt2x00dev->anchor = devm_kmalloc(&usb_dev->dev,
sizeof(struct usb_anchor),
GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -835,10 +831,17 @@ int rt2x00usb_probe(struct usb_interface
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto exit_free_reg;
}
-
init_usb_anchor(rt2x00dev->anchor);
+
+ retval = rt2x00lib_probe_dev(rt2x00dev);
+ if (retval)
+ goto exit_free_anchor;
+
return 0;
+exit_free_anchor:
+ usb_kill_anchored_urbs(rt2x00dev->anchor);
+
exit_free_reg:
rt2x00usb_free_reg(rt2x00dev);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/rt2x00-fix-incorrect-usage-of-config_rt2x00_lib_usb.patch
queue-4.9/rt2x00usb-fix-anchor-initialization.patch
queue-4.9/rt2x00usb-do-not-anchor-rx-and-tx-urb-s.patch