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<title>b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs</title>
<updated>2013-06-20T18:28:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2013-05-10T21:48:21+00:00</published>
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commit e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c upstream.

The module parameter "fwpostfix" is userspace controllable, unfiltered,
and is used to define the firmware filename. b43_do_request_fw() populates
ctx-&gt;errors[] on error, containing the firmware filename. b43err()
parses its arguments as a format string. For systems with b43 hardware,
this could lead to a uid-0 to ring-0 escalation.

CVE-2013-2852

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c upstream.

The module parameter "fwpostfix" is userspace controllable, unfiltered,
and is used to define the firmware filename. b43_do_request_fw() populates
ctx-&gt;errors[] on error, containing the firmware filename. b43err()
parses its arguments as a format string. For systems with b43 hardware,
this could lead to a uid-0 to ring-0 escalation.

CVE-2013-2852

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>b43: A fix for DMA transmission sequence errors</title>
<updated>2013-04-05T17:16:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Iestyn C. Elfick</name>
<email>isedev@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T19:02:31+00:00</published>
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commit b251412db99ccd4495ce372fec7daee27bf06923 upstream.

Intermittently, b43 will report "Out of order TX status report on DMA ring".
When this happens, the driver must be reset before communication can resume.
The cause of the problem is believed to be an error in the closed-source
firmware; however, all versions of the firmware are affected.

This change uses the observation that the expected status is always 2 less
than the observed value, and supplies a fake status report to skip one
header/data pair.

Not all devices suffer from this problem, but it can occur several times
per second under heavy load. As each occurence kills the unmodified driver,
this patch makes if possible for the affected devices to function. The patch
logs only the first instance of the reset operation to prevent spamming
the logs.

Tested-by: Chris Vine &lt;chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b251412db99ccd4495ce372fec7daee27bf06923 upstream.

Intermittently, b43 will report "Out of order TX status report on DMA ring".
When this happens, the driver must be reset before communication can resume.
The cause of the problem is believed to be an error in the closed-source
firmware; however, all versions of the firmware are affected.

This change uses the observation that the expected status is always 2 less
than the observed value, and supplies a fake status report to skip one
header/data pair.

Not all devices suffer from this problem, but it can occur several times
per second under heavy load. As each occurence kills the unmodified driver,
this patch makes if possible for the affected devices to function. The patch
logs only the first instance of the reset operation to prevent spamming
the logs.

Tested-by: Chris Vine &lt;chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>b43: refuse to load unsupported firmware</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T22:31:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>zajec5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-08T16:15:03+00:00</published>
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[This patch is supposed to be applied in 3.1 (and maybe older) branches only.]

New kernels support newer firmware that users may try to incorrectly use
with older kernels. Display error and explain the problem in such a case

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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[This patch is supposed to be applied in 3.1 (and maybe older) branches only.]

New kernels support newer firmware that users may try to incorrectly use
with older kernels. Display error and explain the problem in such a case

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>b43: Fix beacon problem in ad-hoc mode</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:40:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manual Munz</name>
<email>freifunk@somakoma.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-18T23:24:03+00:00</published>
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commit 8c23516fbb209ccf8f8c36268311c721faff29ee upstream.

In ad-hoc mode, driver b43 does not issue beacons.

Signed-off-by: Manual Munz &lt;freifunk@somakoma.de&gt;
Tested-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 8c23516fbb209ccf8f8c36268311c721faff29ee upstream.

In ad-hoc mode, driver b43 does not issue beacons.

Signed-off-by: Manual Munz &lt;freifunk@somakoma.de&gt;
Tested-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-06-04T14:16:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-04T14:16:00+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
  tg3: Fix tg3_skb_error_unmap()
  net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic
  drivers/net/can/flexcan.c: add missing clk_put
  net: dm9000: Get the chip in a known good state before enabling interrupts
  drivers/net/davinci_emac.c: add missing clk_put
  af-packet: Add flag to distinguish VID 0 from no-vlan.
  caif: Fix race when conditionally taking rtnl lock
  usbnet/cdc_ncm: add missing .reset_resume hook
  vlan: fix typo in vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit()
  net/ipv4: Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address
  iwl4965: correctly validate temperature value
  bluetooth l2cap: fix locking in l2cap_global_chan_by_psm
  ath9k: fix two more bugs in tx power
  cfg80211: don't drop p2p probe responses
  Revert "net: fix section mismatches"
  drivers/net/usb/catc.c: Fix potential deadlock in catc_ctrl_run()
  sctp: stop pending timers and purge queues when peer restart asoc
  drivers/net: ks8842 Fix crash on received packet when in PIO mode.
  ip_options_compile: properly handle unaligned pointer
  iwlagn: fix incorrect PCI subsystem id for 6150 devices
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
  tg3: Fix tg3_skb_error_unmap()
  net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic
  drivers/net/can/flexcan.c: add missing clk_put
  net: dm9000: Get the chip in a known good state before enabling interrupts
  drivers/net/davinci_emac.c: add missing clk_put
  af-packet: Add flag to distinguish VID 0 from no-vlan.
  caif: Fix race when conditionally taking rtnl lock
  usbnet/cdc_ncm: add missing .reset_resume hook
  vlan: fix typo in vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit()
  net/ipv4: Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address
  iwl4965: correctly validate temperature value
  bluetooth l2cap: fix locking in l2cap_global_chan_by_psm
  ath9k: fix two more bugs in tx power
  cfg80211: don't drop p2p probe responses
  Revert "net: fix section mismatches"
  drivers/net/usb/catc.c: Fix potential deadlock in catc_ctrl_run()
  sctp: stop pending timers and purge queues when peer restart asoc
  drivers/net: ks8842 Fix crash on received packet when in PIO mode.
  ip_options_compile: properly handle unaligned pointer
  iwlagn: fix incorrect PCI subsystem id for 6150 devices
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem</title>
<updated>2011-05-27T19:18:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-27T19:18:35+00:00</published>
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<title>b43: N-PHY: initialize last var in calibration function</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T19:43:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafał Miłecki</name>
<email>zajec5@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T23:04:46+00:00</published>
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Reported-by: Larry Finger &lt;larry.finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Reported-by: Larry Finger &lt;larry.finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T00:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T00:00:17+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (89 commits)
  bonding: documentation and code cleanup for resend_igmp
  bonding: prevent deadlock on slave store with alb mode (v3)
  net: hold rtnl again in dump callbacks
  Add Fujitsu 1000base-SX PCI ID to tg3
  bnx2x: protect sequence increment with mutex
  sch_sfq: fix peek() implementation
  isdn: netjet - blacklist Digium TDM400P
  via-velocity: don't annotate MAC registers as packed
  xen: netfront: hold RTNL when updating features.
  sctp: fix memory leak of the ASCONF queue when free asoc
  net: make dev_disable_lro use physical device if passed a vlan dev (v2)
  net: move is_vlan_dev into public header file (v2)
  bug.h: Fix build with CONFIG_PRINTK disabled.
  wireless: fix fatal kernel-doc error + warning in mac80211.h
  wireless: fix cfg80211.h new kernel-doc warnings
  iwlagn: dbg_fixed_rate only used when CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS enabled
  dst: catch uninitialized metrics
  be2net: hash key for rss-config cmd not set
  bridge: initialize fake_rtable metrics
  net: fix __dst_destroy_metrics_generic()
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (89 commits)
  bonding: documentation and code cleanup for resend_igmp
  bonding: prevent deadlock on slave store with alb mode (v3)
  net: hold rtnl again in dump callbacks
  Add Fujitsu 1000base-SX PCI ID to tg3
  bnx2x: protect sequence increment with mutex
  sch_sfq: fix peek() implementation
  isdn: netjet - blacklist Digium TDM400P
  via-velocity: don't annotate MAC registers as packed
  xen: netfront: hold RTNL when updating features.
  sctp: fix memory leak of the ASCONF queue when free asoc
  net: make dev_disable_lro use physical device if passed a vlan dev (v2)
  net: move is_vlan_dev into public header file (v2)
  bug.h: Fix build with CONFIG_PRINTK disabled.
  wireless: fix fatal kernel-doc error + warning in mac80211.h
  wireless: fix cfg80211.h new kernel-doc warnings
  iwlagn: dbg_fixed_rate only used when CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS enabled
  dst: catch uninitialized metrics
  be2net: hash key for rss-config cmd not set
  bridge: initialize fake_rtable metrics
  net: fix __dst_destroy_metrics_generic()
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-davem' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-05-25T17:28:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-25T17:28:55+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T20:47:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
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<published>2011-05-24T20:47:54+00:00</published>
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