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Commit bf11315e authored by Stanislav Yakovlev's avatar Stanislav Yakovlev Committed by John W. Linville
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net/wireless: ipw2200: Fix panic occurring in ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx()



The driver does not count space of radiotap fields when allocating skb for
radiotap packet. This leads to kernel panic with the following call trace:

...
[67607.676067] [<c152f90f>] error_code+0x67/0x6c
[67607.676067] [<c142f831>] ? skb_put+0x91/0xa0
[67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ? ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8cf899b>] ipw_net_hard_start_xmit+0x8b/0x90 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8741c5a>] libipw_xmit+0x55a/0x980 [libipw]
[67607.676067] [<c143d3e8>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x218/0x4d0
...

This bug was found by VittGam.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43255

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 1fffa905
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