Bug#636531: linux-image-3.0.0-1-kirkwood: NULL pointer deref in rt2800usb_get_txwi

[Arnaud Patard (Rtp) <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>]

Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> writes:

Hi,

>
> [frogger@hardanger:linux-2.6]$ git show
> b52398b6e4522176dd125722c72c301015d24520
> commit b52398b6e4522176dd125722c72c301015d24520
> Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> Date:   Sat Jul 30 13:32:56 2011 +0200
>
>     rt2x00: rt2800: fix zeroing skb structure
>
>     We should clear skb->data not skb itself. Bug was introduced by:
>     commit 0b8004aa12d13ec750d102ba4082a95f0107c649 "rt2x00: Properly
>     reserve room for descriptors in skbs".
>
>     Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.36+
>     Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
>     Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
>     Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
>     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
>

I've done a quick build of 3.0 with this patch [1], can you please try
it in order to check if the patch is fixing the issue ?


Thanks,
Arnaud

[1] http://www.rtp-net.org/kirkwood/linux-image-3.0.0-1-kirkwood_3.0.0-2_armel.deb