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Commit 769ec2a8 authored by Alexander Wetzel's avatar Alexander Wetzel Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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rtl818x: Prevent using not initialized queues

commit 746285cf

 upstream.

Using not existing queues can panic the kernel with rtl8180/rtl8185 cards.
Ignore the skb priority for those cards, they only have one tx queue. Pierre
Asselin (pa@panix.com) reported the kernel crash in the Gentoo forum:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1147832-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html

He also confirmed that this patch fixes the issue. In summary this happened:

After updating wpa_supplicant from 2.9 to 2.10 the kernel crashed with a
"divide error: 0000" when connecting to an AP. Control port tx now tries to
use IEEE80211_AC_VO for the priority, which wpa_supplicants starts to use in
2.10.

Since only the rtl8187se part of the driver supports QoS, the priority
of the skb is set to IEEE80211_AC_BE (2) by mac80211 for rtl8180/rtl8185
cards.

rtl8180 is then unconditionally reading out the priority and finally crashes on
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c line 544 without this
patch:
	idx = (ring->idx + skb_queue_len(&ring->queue)) % ring->entries

"ring->entries" is zero for rtl8180/rtl8185 cards, tx_ring[2] never got
initialized.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatar <pa@panix.com>
Tested-by: default avatar <pa@panix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422145228.7567-1-alexander@wetzel-home.de
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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