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



On 08/05/2011 11:17 AM, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote:
> 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 a lot - The kernel is already downloading.
FYI: that patch is not part of 3.0.1.

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

cheers, Marc

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