Re: [PATCH stable-4.4 1/2] brcmfmac: Ensure pointer correctly set if skb data location changes

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On 9-5-2017 14:14, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 11:21:13AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> From: James Hughes <james.hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> commit 455a1eb4654c24560eb9dfc634f29cba3d87601e upstream
>>
>> The incoming skb header may be resized if header space is
>> insufficient, which might change the data adddress in the skb.
>> Ensure that a cached pointer to that data is correctly set by
>> moving assignment to after any possible changes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: James Hughes <james.hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> This patch should be applied to the linux-4.4.y and linux-4.1.y
>> branches.
> 
> Now applied to the 4.4 trees.  I've also added it to 3.18, thanks for
> the patches!

Ok. I did not check 3.18 as it is marked EOL on kernel.org. I checked
just now and the patch does not apply to 3.18 as is.

Regards,
Arend



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