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Larry Finger 5c039a9921 b43legacy: Fix case where channel status is corrupted 
commit ec4d3e3a05 upstream.

This patch fixes commit 75388acd0c ("add mac80211-based driver for
legacy BCM43xx devices")

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207093, a defect in
b43legacy is reported. Upon testing, thus problem exists on PPC and
X86 platforms, is present in the oldest kernel tested (3.2), and
has been present in the driver since it was first added to the kernel.

The problem is a corrupted channel status received from the device.
Both the internal card in a PowerBook G4 and the PCMCIA version
(Broadcom BCM4306 with PCI ID 14e4:4320) have the problem. Only Rev, 2
(revision 4 of the 802.11 core) of the chip has been tested. No other
devices using b43legacy are available for testing.

Various sources of the problem were considered. Buffer overrun and
other sources of corruption within the driver were rejected because
the faulty channel status is always the same, not a random value.
It was concluded that the faulty data is coming from the device, probably
due to a firmware bug. As that source is not available, the driver
must take appropriate action to recover.

At present, the driver reports the error, and them continues to process
the bad packet. This is believed that to be a mistake, and the correct
action is to drop the correpted packet.

Fixes: 75388acd0c ("add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices")
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-and-tested by: F. Erhard <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200407190043.1686-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-22 09:31:19 +02:00
arch x86/amd_nb: Add AMD family 17h model 60h PCI IDs 2020-06-22 09:31:17 +02:00
block iocost: don't let vrate run wild while there's no saturation signal 2020-06-22 09:31:06 +02:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto crypto: drbg - fix error return code in drbg_alloc_state() 2020-06-17 16:40:31 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: display: mediatek: control dpi pins mode to avoid leakage 2020-06-22 09:30:58 +02:00
drivers b43legacy: Fix case where channel status is corrupted 2020-06-22 09:31:19 +02:00
fs ext4: fix race between ext4_sync_parent() and rename() 2020-06-22 09:31:16 +02:00
include x86/amd_nb: Add AMD family 17h model 60h PCI IDs 2020-06-22 09:31:17 +02:00
init x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-20 08:20:34 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel bpf: Fix map permissions check 2020-06-22 09:31:11 +02:00
lib kasan: stop tests being eliminated as dead code with FORTIFY_SOURCE 2020-06-22 09:31:12 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: call cond_resched() from deferred_init_memmap() 2020-06-22 09:31:14 +02:00
net bpf: Fix running sk_skb program types with ktls 2020-06-22 09:31:12 +02:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix build error 2020-06-03 08:21:15 +02:00
scripts bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF 2020-06-17 16:40:20 +02:00
security ima: Set again build_ima_appraise variable 2020-06-22 09:31:17 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add vendor, product and profile name for HP Thunderbolt Dock 2020-06-17 16:40:28 +02:00
tools selftests/bpf, flow_dissector: Close TAP device FD after the test 2020-06-22 09:31:12 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Save the host's PtrAuth keys in non-preemptible context 2020-06-17 16:40:38 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 17:22:19 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.47 2020-06-17 16:40:38 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.