With an RTL8191SU USB adaptor, sometimes the hints for a fragmented packet are set, but the packet length is too large. Allocate enough space to prevent memory corruption and a resulting kernel panic [1]. [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg136546.html Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran <haggai.eran@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Larry, I've updated the patch to avoid truncating the packets. I'm keeping the minimal buffer of 1658 bytes in case some other device does rely on this defragmentation feature. Regards, Haggai drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c index cd8b444..5542243 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c @@ -1056,7 +1056,8 @@ static int recvbuf2recvframe(struct _adapter *padapter, struct sk_buff *pskb) /* for first fragment packet, driver need allocate 1536 + * drvinfo_sz + RXDESC_SIZE to defrag packet. */ if ((mf == 1) && (frag == 0)) - alloc_sz = 1658;/*1658+6=1664, 1664 is 128 alignment.*/ + /*1658+6=1664, 1664 is 128 alignment.*/ + alloc_sz = max_t(u16, tmp_len, 1658); else alloc_sz = tmp_len; /* 2 is for IP header 4 bytes alignment in QoS packet case. -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html