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| author | Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> | 2009-12-08 21:00:22 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-12-08 21:00:22 -0800 |
| commit | e0188829cb724e7d12a2d4e343b368ff1d6e1471 (patch) | |
| tree | 4aa935073040b11f6a8e2f55451fa80a8ffb3028 /net/wireless/wext-compat.c | |
| parent | 77722b177a1606669c0b95dde03347e37d13b8fe (diff) | |
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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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