This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
brcmfmac: Fix bitmap malloc bug in msgbuf.
to the 3.17-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:
brcmfmac-fix-bitmap-malloc-bug-in-msgbuf.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 333c2aa029b847051a2db76a6ca59f699a520030 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 21:05:27 +0100
Subject: brcmfmac: Fix bitmap malloc bug in msgbuf.
From: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 333c2aa029b847051a2db76a6ca59f699a520030 upstream.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/msgbuf.c
@@ -1282,6 +1282,7 @@ int brcmf_proto_msgbuf_attach(struct brc
}
INIT_WORK(&msgbuf->txflow_work, brcmf_msgbuf_txflow_worker);
count = BITS_TO_LONGS(if_msgbuf->nrof_flowrings);
+ count = count * sizeof(unsigned long);
msgbuf->flow_map = kzalloc(count, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!msgbuf->flow_map)
goto fail;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/brcmfmac-fix-bitmap-malloc-bug-in-msgbuf.patch
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