linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/b43, branch linux-3.9.y

b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs

2013-06-20T19:01:27+00:00

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->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 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

B43: Handle DMA RX descriptor underrun

2013-05-19T18:38:29+00:00

commit 73b82bf0bfbf58e6ff328d3726934370585f6e78 upstream.

Add handling of rx descriptor underflow. This fixes a fault that could
happen on slow machines, where data is received faster than the CPU can
handle. In such a case the device will use up all rx descriptors and
refuse to send any more data before confirming that it is ok. This
patch enables necessary interrupt to discover such a situation and will
handle them by dropping everything in the ring buffer.

Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch 
Signed-off-by: Thommy Jakobsson 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ssb: implement spurious tone avoidance

2013-04-10T14:31:26+00:00

And make use of it in b43. This fixes a regression introduced with
49d55cef5b1925a5c1efb6aaddaa40fc7c693335
b43: N-PHY: implement spurious tone avoidance
This commit made BCM4322 use only MCS 0 on channel 13, which of course
resulted in performance drop (down to 0.7Mb/s).

Reported-by: Stefan Brüns 
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
Cc: Stable 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

b43: N-PHY: use more bits for offset in RSSI calibration

2013-03-27T15:07:05+00:00

When calculating "offset" for final RSSI calibration we're using numbers
bigger than s8 can hold. We have for example:
offset[j] = 232 - poll_results[j];
formula. If poll_results[j] is small enough (it usually is) we treat
number's bit as a sign bit. For example 232 - 1 becomes:
0xE8 - 0x1 = 0xE7, which is not 231 but -25.

This code was introduced in e0c9a0219a8f542e3946fe972a68aacf8c3f906c
and caused stability regression on some cards, for ex. BCM4322.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

b43: A fix for DMA transmission sequence errors

2013-03-27T15:07:04+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Cc: Stable 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

b43: N-PHY: increase initial value of "mind" in RSSI calibration

2013-03-27T15:07:04+00:00

We're using "mind" variable to find the VCM that got the best polling
results. For each VCM we calculte "currd" which is compared to the
"mind". For PHY rev3+ "currd" gets values around 14k-40k. Looking for a
value smaller than 40 makes no sense, so increase the initial value.

This fixes a regression introduced in 3.4 by commit:
e0c9a0219a8f542e3946fe972a68aacf8c3f906c
(my BCM4322 performance dropped from 18,4Mb/s to 9,26Mb/s)

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2013-02-26T19:44:11+00:00

Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) ping_err() ICMP error handler looks at wrong ICMP header, from Li
    Wei.

 2) TCP socket hash function on ipv6 is too weak, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) netif_set_xps_queue() forgets to drop mutex on errors, fix from
    Alexander Duyck.

 4) sum_frag_mem_limit() can deadlock due to lack of BH disabling, fix
    from Eric Dumazet.

 5) TCP SYN data is miscalculated in tcp_send_syn_data(), because the
    amount of TCP option space was not taken into account properly in
    this code path.  Fix from yuchung Cheng.

 6) MLX4 driver allocates device queues with the wrong size, from Kleber
    Sacilotto.

 7) sock_diag can access past the end of the sock_diag_handlers[] array,
    from Mathias Krause.

 8) vlan_set_encap_proto() makes incorrect assumptions about where
    skb->data points, rework the logic so that it works regardless of
    where skb->data happens to be.  From Jesse Gross.

 9) Fix gianfar build failure with NET_POLL enabled, from Paul
    Gortmaker.

10) Fix Ipv4 ID setting and checksum calculations in GRE driver, from
   Pravin B Shelar.

11) bgmac driver does:

        int i;

        for (i = 0; ...; ...) {
                ...
                for (i = 0; ...; ...) {

    effectively corrupting the outer loop index, use a seperate
    variable for the inner loops.  From Rafał Miłecki.

12) Fix suspend bugs in smsc95xx driver, from Ming Lei.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (35 commits)
  usbnet: smsc95xx: rename FEATURE_AUTOSUSPEND
  usbnet: smsc95xx: fix broken runtime suspend
  usbnet: smsc95xx: fix suspend failure
  bgmac: fix indexing of 2nd level loops
  b43: Fix lockdep splat on module unload
  Revert "ip_gre: propogate target device GSO capability to the tunnel device"
  IP_GRE: Fix GRE_CSUM case.
  VXLAN: Use tunnel_ip_select_ident() for tunnel IP-Identification.
  IP_GRE: Fix IP-Identification.
  net/pasemi: Fix missing coding style
  vmxnet3: fix ethtool ring buffer size setting
  vmxnet3: make local function static
  bnx2x: remove dead code and make local funcs static
  gianfar: fix compile fail for NET_POLL=y due to struct packing
  vlan: adjust vlan_set_encap_proto() for its callers
  sock_diag: Simplify sock_diag_handlers[] handling in __sock_diag_rcv_msg
  sock_diag: Fix out-of-bounds access to sock_diag_handlers[]
  vxlan: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
  mlx4_en: fix allocation of CPU affinity reverse-map
  mlx4_en: fix allocation of device tx_cq
  ...

b43: Fix lockdep splat on module unload

2013-02-25T20:47:41+00:00

On unload, b43 produces a lockdep warning that can be summarized in the
following way:

 ======================================================
 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 3.8.0-wl+ #117 Not tainted
 -------------------------------------------------------
 modprobe/5557 is trying to acquire lock:
  ((&wl->firmware_load)){+.+.+.}, at: [] flush_work+0x0/0x2a0

 but task is already holding lock:
  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x20

 which lock already depends on the new lock.
 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 ======================================================

The full output is available at http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.3/00060.html.
To summarize, commit 6b6fa58 added a 'cancel_work_sync(&wl->firmware_load)'
call in the wrong place.

The fix is to move the cancel_work_sync() call to b43_bcma_remove() and
b43_ssb_remove(). Thanks to Johannes Berg and Michael Buesch for help in
diagnosing the log output.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Cc: Stable  [V3.5+]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2013-02-21T20:05:51+00:00

Pull driver core patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is the big driver core merge for 3.9-rc1

  There are two major series here, both of which touch lots of drivers
  all over the kernel, and will cause you some merge conflicts:

   - add a new function called devm_ioremap_resource() to properly be
     able to check return values.

   - remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

  Other than those patches, there's not much here, some minor fixes and
  updates"

Fix up trivial conflicts

* tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (221 commits)
  base: memory: fix soft/hard_offline_page permissions
  drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting initcalls
  backlight: fix class_find_device() arguments
  TTY: mark tty_get_device call with the proper const values
  driver-core: constify data for class_find_device()
  firmware: Ignore abort check when no user-helper is used
  firmware: Reduce ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
  firmware: Make user-mode helper optional
  firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper code
  Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices
  watchdog: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  thermal: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  spi: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  power: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mtd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mmc: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mfd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  media: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  iommu: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  drm: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  ...

b43: Increase number of RX DMA slots

2013-02-19T05:51:08+00:00

Bastian Bittorf reported that some of the silent freezes on a Linksys WRT54G
were due to overflow of the RX DMA ring buffer, which was created with 64
slots. That finding reminded me that I was seeing similar crashed on a netbook,
which also has a relatively slow processor. After increasing the number of
slots to 128, runs on the netbook that previously failed now worked; however,
I found that 109 slots had been used in one test. For that reason, the number
of slots is being increased to 256.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Cc: Bastian Bittorf 
Cc: Stable 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller