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author | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2009-10-30 13:45:14 -0400 |
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committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-10-30 15:50:25 -0400 |
commit | e9024a059f2c17fb2bfab212ee9d31511d7b8e57 (patch) | |
tree | df915e4de67786102850f91e2b4deadf5fb10fe3 /drivers/net/fec_mpc52xx.h | |
parent | 372362ade2fe5c33d749e017f1c5bc8140769a3e (diff) |
libertas if_usb: Fix crash on 64-bit machines
On a 64-bit kernel, skb->tail is an offset, not a pointer. The libertas
usb driver passes it to usb_fill_bulk_urb() anyway, causing interesting
crashes. Fix that by using skb->data instead.
This highlights a problem with usb_fill_bulk_urb(). It doesn't notice
when dma_map_single() fails and return the error to its caller as it
should. In fact it _can't_ currently return the error, since it returns
void.
So this problem was showing up only at unmap time, after we'd already
suffered memory corruption by doing DMA to a bogus address.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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