[PATCH v3 0/2] wcn36xx: fix crash because rx skb allocation failure

yfw fengwei.yin at linaro.org
Thu Jan 7 05:08:07 PST 2016


On 2016年01月07日 21:05, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Fengwei Yin <fengwei.yin at linaro.org> writes:
>
>> The current wcn36xx driver didn't handle rx skb allocation failure case.
>> It only could be triggered when system is in extremly memory shortage
>> case. King Lawrence <lking at qti.qualcomm.com> hit it by git clone linux
>> kernel tree on DragonBoard <1>.
>>
>> The fixing is not to submit the old rx skb to network upper layer and
>> reuse it as rx DMA buffer again.
>>
>> Changes from v2:
>>   * Remove the ugly macro introduced in v2 per comment from Julian Calaby.
>>   * Seperate the DMA int mask register writing as one patch per comment
>>     from Bjorn Andersson.
>>
>> Changes from v1:
>>   * Move switch block out of while loop.
>>   * Remove the warning of unknown channel because we didn't deal with it.
>>
>> Fengwei Yin (2):
>>    wcn36xx: handle rx skb allocation failure to avoid system crash
>>    wcn36xx: split DMA mask register writing.
>
> Applied to ath.git, thanks.
>
Thanks a lot.

Regards
Yin, Fengwei



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