Regression in ath10k

[Mike Lothian]

On 5 February 2018 at 22:38, Mike Lothian <mike at fireburn.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Since the merge window opened I've been unable to see any wireless
> networks or join my usual access point
>
> I bisected this to:
>
> 9ed4f91628737c820af6a1815b65bc06bd31518f is the first bad commit
> commit 9ed4f91628737c820af6a1815b65bc06bd31518f
> Author: Ryan Hsu <ryanhsu at codeaurora.org>
> Date:   Tue Jan 16 11:43:49 2018 +0200
>
>    ath10k: add sanity check to ie_len before parsing fw/board ie
>
>    Validate ie_len after the alignment padding before access the buffer
>    to avoid potential overflow.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Ryan Hsu <ryanhsu at codeaurora.org>
>    Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org>
>
> And I can confirm that reverting the patch makes things work again (attached)
>
> Device:
>
> 3c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac
> Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)
>
> Firmware:
>
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
>
> ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/4.4.1.c1
>
> There was nothing obvious in the dmesg
>
> Regards
>
> Mike

Adding in the ath10k list and another email address for Kalle