rtlwifi: Fix kernel panic resulting from RX buffer allocation failure

To handle amsdu_8k capability, the PCI routine of this driver must
allocate receive buffers of order 2. Under heavy load, this causes
fragmentation of memory. The present code releases the current buffer
before checking to see if a new one is availble. Recovery from
allocation failures is not possible, which results in kernel panics.

The fix is to reorder the code to check that a new buffer can be
allocated before the old one is released. If not possible, the
received frame is dropped and the old one is reused. Without this
change, it is impossible to transfer a 2 GB file without a kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>              [2.6.{37,38,39}]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
index a40952845436..c2b83a57c581 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
@@ -669,11 +669,6 @@ static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
                                                          &rx_status,
                                                          (u8 *) pdesc, skb);
 
-                        pci_unmap_single(rtlpci->pdev,
-                                         *((dma_addr_t *) skb->cb),
-                                         rtlpci->rxbuffersize,
-                                         PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
-
                         skb_put(skb, rtlpriv->cfg->ops->get_desc((u8 *) pdesc,
                                                          false,
                                                          HW_DESC_RXPKT_LEN));
@@ -690,6 +685,21 @@ static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
                         hdr = rtl_get_hdr(skb);
                         fc = rtl_get_fc(skb);
 
+                        /* try for new buffer - if allocation fails, drop
+                         * frame and reuse old buffer
+                         */
+                        new_skb = dev_alloc_skb(rtlpci->rxbuffersize);
+                        if (unlikely(!new_skb)) {
+                                RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, (COMP_INTR | COMP_RECV),
+                                         DBG_DMESG,
+                                         ("can't alloc skb for rx\n"));
+                                goto done;
+                        }
+                        pci_unmap_single(rtlpci->pdev,
+                                         *((dma_addr_t *) skb->cb),
+                                         rtlpci->rxbuffersize,
+                                         PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
+
                         if (!stats.crc || !stats.hwerror) {
                                 memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb), &rx_status,
                                        sizeof(rx_status));
@@ -758,15 +768,7 @@ static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
                                 rtl_lps_leave(hw);
                         }
 
-                        new_skb = dev_alloc_skb(rtlpci->rxbuffersize);
-                        if (unlikely(!new_skb)) {
-                                RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, (COMP_INTR | COMP_RECV),
-                                         DBG_DMESG,
-                                         ("can't alloc skb for rx\n"));
-                                goto done;
-                        }
                         skb = new_skb;
-                        /*skb->dev = dev; */
 
                         rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].rx_buf[rtlpci->
                                                              rx_ring