b44 WOL setup: one-bit-off stack corruption kernel panic fix
About 50% of shutdowns of b44 Ethernet adapter ends by kernel panic with kernels compiled with stack-protector. Checking b44_magic_pattern() return values, one call of b44_magic_pattern() returns 127. It means, that set_bit(128, pmask) was called on line 1509. It means that bit 0 of 17th byte of pmask was overwritten. But pmask has only 16 bytes. Stack corruption happens. It seems that set_bit() on line 1509 always writes one bit off. The fix does not only solve the stack corruption, but also makes Wake On LAN working on my onboard B44 on Asus A7V-333X mainboard. It seems that this problem affects all kernel versions since commit 725ad800 ([PATCH] b44: add wol for old nic) on 2006-06-20. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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