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Larry Finger 20437a7c0f b43legacy: Fix case where channel status is corrupted 
commit ec4d3e3a05 upstream.

This patch fixes commit 75388acd0c ("add mac80211-based driver for
legacy BCM43xx devices")

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207093, a defect in
b43legacy is reported. Upon testing, thus problem exists on PPC and
X86 platforms, is present in the oldest kernel tested (3.2), and
has been present in the driver since it was first added to the kernel.

The problem is a corrupted channel status received from the device.
Both the internal card in a PowerBook G4 and the PCMCIA version
(Broadcom BCM4306 with PCI ID 14e4:4320) have the problem. Only Rev, 2
(revision 4 of the 802.11 core) of the chip has been tested. No other
devices using b43legacy are available for testing.

Various sources of the problem were considered. Buffer overrun and
other sources of corruption within the driver were rejected because
the faulty channel status is always the same, not a random value.
It was concluded that the faulty data is coming from the device, probably
due to a firmware bug. As that source is not available, the driver
must take appropriate action to recover.

At present, the driver reports the error, and them continues to process
the bad packet. This is believed that to be a mistake, and the correct
action is to drop the correpted packet.

Fixes: 75388acd0c ("add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices")
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-and-tested by: F. Erhard <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200407190043.1686-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-22 09:05:27 +02:00
arch x86/amd_nb: Add Family 19h PCI IDs 2020-06-22 09:05:25 +02:00
block block, bfq: fix use-after-free in bfq_idle_slice_timer_body 2020-04-17 10:48:42 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto 2020-05-20 08:18:46 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: display: mediatek: control dpi pins mode to avoid leakage 2020-06-22 09:05:13 +02:00
drivers b43legacy: Fix case where channel status is corrupted 2020-06-22 09:05:27 +02:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs btrfs: fix wrong file range cleanup after an error filling dealloc range 2020-06-22 09:05:26 +02:00
include serial: 8250_pci: Move Pericom IDs to pci_ids.h 2020-06-22 09:05:25 +02:00
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.