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John Bonesio
37ccd92f55 net/fec_mpc52xx: Fix kernel panic on FEC error
The MDIO bus cannot be accessed at interrupt context, but on an FEC
error, the fec_mpc52xx driver reset function also tries to reset the
PHY.  Since the error is detected at IRQ context, and the PHY functions
try to sleep, the kernel ends up panicking.

Resetting the PHY on an FEC error isn't even necessary.  This patch
solves the problem by removing the PHY reset entirely.

Signed-off-by: John Bonesio <bones@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-14 15:10:19 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
e72701acbe net: Fix OF platform drivers coldplug/hotplug when compiled as modules
Some OF platform drivers are missing module device tables, so they won't
load automatically on boot. This patch fixes the issue by adding proper
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macros to the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-14 14:54:52 -07:00
Sriram
0fe7463a35 TI DaVinci EMAC: Clear statistics register properly.
The mechanism to clear the statistics register is dependent
on the status of GMIIEN bit in MAC control register. If the
GMIIEN bit is set, the stats registers are write to decrement.
If the GMIIEN bit is cleared, the stats registers are plain
read/write registers. The stats register clearing operation
must take into account the current state of GMIIEN as it
can be cleared when the interface is brought down.

With existing implementation logic, querying for interface stats
when the interface is down, can corrupt the statistics counters.
This patch examines the GMIIEN bit status in MAC_CONTROL
register before choosing an appropriate mask for clearing stats
registers.

Signed-off-by: Sriramakrishnan <srk@ti.com>
Acked-by: Chaithrika U S <chaithrika@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 12:02:53 -07:00
françois romieu
daf9df6d8d r8169: partial support and phy init for the 8168d
Extracted from Realtek's 8.012.00 r8168 driver.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Tested-by: Simon Farnsworth <simon.farnsworth@onelan.com>
Cc: Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 12:01:31 -07:00
David S. Miller
417c5233db Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2009-10-13 11:41:34 -07:00
Dmitry Artamonow
91cd1756cb irda/sa1100_ir: check return value of startup hook
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Artamonow <mad_soft@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 03:17:37 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
8558467201 udp: Fix udp_poll() and ioctl()
udp_poll() can in some circumstances drop frames with incorrect checksums.

Problem is we now have to lock the socket while dropping frames, or risk
sk_forward corruption.

This bug is present since commit 95766fff6b
([UDP]: Add memory accounting.)

While we are at it, we can correct ioctl(SIOCINQ) to also drop bad frames.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 03:16:54 -07:00
Krzysztof Halasa
9652041da1 WAN: fix Cisco HDLC handshaking.
Cisco HDLC uses keepalive packets and sequence numbers to determine link
state. In rare cases both ends could transmit keepalive packets at the same
time, causing the received sequence numbers to be treated as incorrect.
Now we accept our current sequence number as well as the previous one.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 03:16:53 -07:00
Willy Tarreau
6d01a026b7 tcp: fix tcp_defer_accept to consider the timeout
I was trying to use TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT and noticed that if the
client does not talk, the connection is never accepted and
remains in SYN_RECV state until the retransmits expire, where
it finally is deleted. This is bad when some firewall such as
netfilter sits between the client and the server because the
firewall sees the connection in ESTABLISHED state while the
server will finally silently drop it without sending an RST.

This behaviour contradicts the man page which says it should
wait only for some time :

       TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT (since Linux 2.4)
          Allows a listener to be awakened only when data arrives
          on the socket.  Takes an integer value  (seconds), this
          can  bound  the  maximum  number  of attempts TCP will
          make to complete the connection. This option should not
          be used in code intended to be portable.

Also, looking at ipv4/tcp.c, a retransmit counter is correctly
computed :

        case TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT:
                icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept = 0;
                if (val > 0) {
                        /* Translate value in seconds to number of
                         * retransmits */
                        while (icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept < 32 &&
                               val > ((TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT / HZ) <<
                                       icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept))
                                icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept++;
                        icsk->icsk_accept_queue.rskq_defer_accept++;
                }
                break;

==> rskq_defer_accept is used as a counter of retransmits.

But in tcp_minisocks.c, this counter is only checked. And in
fact, I have found no location which updates it. So I think
that what was intended was to decrease it in tcp_minisocks
whenever it is checked, which the trivial patch below does.

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 01:35:28 -07:00
Ken Kawasaki
e3eef534c5 3c574_cs: spin_lock the set_multicast_list function
3c574_cs:
 spin_lock the set_multicast_list function.

Signed-off-by: Ken Kawasaki <ken_kawasaki@spring.nifty.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 00:35:55 -07:00
Chris Rankin
ab854b24a2 net: Teach pegasus driver to ignore bluetoother adapters with clashing Vendor:Product IDs
The Belkin F8T012xx1 bluetooth adaptor has the same vendor and product
IDs as the Belkin F5D5050, so we need to teach the pegasus driver to
ignore adaptors belonging to the "Wireless" class 0xE0. For this one
case anyway, seeing as pegasus is a driver for "Wired" adaptors.

Signed-off-by: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 00:35:54 -07:00
Dhananjay Phadke
71fb62fb6d netxen: fix pci bar mapping
Use resource_size_t for PCI resource remapping instead
of unsigned long. Physical addresses can exceed range of
long data type (e.g with PAE).

Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 00:26:04 -07:00
Alan Cox
4ce22537a2 ethoc: fix warning from 32bit build
drivers/net/ethoc.c: In function ‘ethoc_open’:
drivers/net/ethoc.c:667: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types
lacks a cast

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 00:23:06 -07:00
Alan Cox
767e366fc9 libertas: fix build
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c: In function ‘lbs_process_event’:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c:519: error: ‘TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE’
undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c:519: error: (Each undeclared
identifier is reported only once
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c:519: error: for each function it
appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 00:23:05 -07:00
Shreyas Bhatewara
d1a890fa37 net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3
Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3

From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>

This patch adds driver support for VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC: vmxnet3
Guests running on VMware hypervisors supporting vmxnet3 device will thus have
access to improved network functionalities and performance.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ronghua Zhang <ronghua@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 00:15:51 -07:00
Vincent Sanders
b9696ea325 net: Fix IXP 2000 network driver building.
The IXP 2000 network driver was failing to build as it has its own
statistics gathering which was not compatible with the recent network
device operations changes. This patch fixes the driver in the obvious
way and has been compile tested. I have been unable to get the ixp2000
maintainer to comment or test this fix.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-13 00:03:11 -07:00
Alan Cox
c49de94a56 libertas: fix build
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c: In function ‘lbs_process_event’:
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c:519: error: ‘TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE’
undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c:519: error: (Each undeclared
identifier is reported only once
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmdresp.c:519: error: for each function it
appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:54 -04:00
Johannes Berg
d20ef63d32 mac80211: document ieee80211_rx() context requirement
ieee80211_rx() must be called with softirqs disabled
since the networking stack requires this for netif_rx()
and some code in mac80211 can assume that it can not
be processing its own tasklet and this call at the same
time.

It may be possible to remove this requirement after a
careful audit of mac80211 and doing any needed locking
improvements in it along with disabling softirqs around
netif_rx(). An alternative might be to push all packet
processing to process context in mac80211, instead of
to the tasklet, and add other synchronisation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:53 -04:00
Johannes Berg
edbfdcceb4 b43: fix ieee80211_rx() context
Due to the way it interacts with the networking
stack and other parts of mac80211, ieee80211_rx()
must be called with disabled softirqs.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/39440/focus=40266

Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:53 -04:00
Johannes Berg
51f98f1313 mac80211: fix ibss race
When a scan completes, we call ieee80211_sta_find_ibss(),
which is also called from other places. When the scan was
done in software, there's no problem as both run from the
single-threaded mac80211 workqueue and are thus serialised
against each other, but with hardware scan the completion
can be in a different context and race against callers of
this function from the workqueue (e.g. due to beacon RX).
So instead of calling ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() directly,
just arm the timer and have it fire, scheduling the work,
which will invoke ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() (if that is
appropriate in the current state).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:52 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
5e4708bcb5 mac80211: fix logic error ibss merge bssid check
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:52 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
d7c76f4c50 iwlwifi: change the order of freeing memory
Need to free the dynamic allocated memory before ieee80211_free_hw();
once call ieee80211_free_hw(), should not reference to "priv" data
structure.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-12 15:55:52 -04:00
Ben Hutchings
6c60e0c30c acenic: Pass up error code from ace_load_firmware()
If ace_load_firmware() fails, ace_init() cleans up but still returns
0, leading to an oops as seen in <http://bugs.debian.org/521383>.
It should pass the error code up.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-12 04:18:48 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
5fdb9973c1 net: Fix struct sock bitfield annotation
Since commit a98b65a3 (net: annotate struct sock bitfield), we lost
8 bytes in struct sock on 64bit arches because of
kmemcheck_bitfield_end(flags) misplacement.

Fix this by putting together sk_shutdown, sk_no_check, sk_userlocks,
sk_protocol and sk_type in the 'flags' 32bits bitfield

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-11 23:03:52 -07:00
jamal
53f7e35f8b pkt_sched: pedit use proper struct
This probably deserves to go into -stable.

Pedit will reject a policy that is large because it
uses the wrong structure in the policy validation.
This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-11 23:03:47 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
d1f6803a58 net: Add patchwork URL to MAINTAINERS
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-11 23:03:41 -07:00
David S. Miller
10c435f18b net: Link in PHY drivers before others.
We need PHY drivers to initialize in a static kernel before
the MAC drivers that use them.  So link them in first.

Based upon a report by Felix Radensky.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-09 14:24:36 -07:00
Dave Mitchell
3201fce0b2 ibm_newemac: Added 16K Tx FIFO size support for EMAC4
Some of the EMAC V4 implementations support 16K Tx FIFOs. This
patch adds support for this functionality and fixes typos in the
Tx FIFO size error messages.

Signed-off-by: Dave Mitchell <dmitchell@appliedmicro.com>
Acked-by: Prodyut Hazarika <phazarika@appliedmicro.com>
Acked-by: Victor Gallardo <vgallardo@appliedmicro.com>
Acked-by: Loc Ho <lho@appliedmicro.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 22:54:56 -07:00
Ron Mercer
efd7d2619f qlge: Add disable/enable firmare irqs to handler.
This was accidentally omitted from one of the previous patches for firmware event
handling.  The handler needs to the enable firmware irq mask when it's done
processing or it may not get any more events interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 22:54:55 -07:00
Ron Mercer
2cd6dbaaf4 qlge: Restore rx mode after internal reset.
Call set_multi API after reset recovery.  This was exposed by tripping
tx_timeout.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 22:54:52 -07:00
Ron Mercer
84087f4d48 qlge: Fix chip reset process.
Add wait for NIC fifo and MGMNT fifo to empty before applying reset.
Otherwise broken frames can be processed by management processor and
cause it to hang.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 22:54:51 -07:00
Ron Mercer
76b26694cc qlge: Fix RX multicast filter settings.
The addresses were being added to the filter properly, but were not
being enabled.  This adds enable bit to filter write.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 22:54:48 -07:00
Ron Mercer
e163d7f277 qlge: Fix frame routing for multicast frames.
Broadcast/multicast should always be routed to the default (zeroeth) rx
ring.  Broadcast frames are already routed correctly.  This fixes
routing for multicast frames.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 22:54:47 -07:00
Ron Mercer
a3b71939a9 qlge: Fix frame routing issue related to bonding.
Currently frames are routed based on their type and MAC address. This
patch adds the port number on which the frame arrived to the routing.
This prevents problems in the case where both interfaces have the same MAC address in
a routing configuration.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 22:54:45 -07:00
Ron Mercer
541ae28c2d qlge: Fix RSS hashing values.
Fix RX queue table size and change from random to default hash values.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 22:54:42 -07:00
David S. Miller
67972e0c23 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2009-10-08 15:55:21 -07:00
Johannes Berg
8a8e05e5d8 cfg80211: fix netns error unwinding bug
The error unwinding code in set_netns has a bug
that will make it run into a BUG_ON if passed a
bad wiphy index, fix by not trying to unlock a
wiphy that doesn't exist.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-08 16:27:00 -04:00
Jiri Pirko
ad61df918c netlink: fix typo in initialization
Commit 9ef1d4c7c7 ("[NETLINK]: Missing
initializations in dumped data") introduced a typo in
initialization. This patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-08 01:21:46 -07:00
David S. Miller
879e930413 znet: Don't claim DMA lock around free_dma() calls.
It's not necessary and it's illegal too.

Reported-by: Alexander Strakh <strakh@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07 22:15:23 -07:00
Wolfram Sang
d308e38fa5 include/linux/netdevice.h: fix nanodoc mismatch
nanodoc was missing an ndo_-prefix.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07 13:53:11 -07:00
Albert Herranz
7e937c633f b43: do not stack-allocate pio rx/tx header and tail buffers
The DMA-API debugging facility complains about b43 mapping memory from
stack for SDIO-based cards.

Indeed, b43 currently allocates the PIO RX/TX header and tail buffers
from stack. The solution here is to use heap-allocated buffers instead.

Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:51 -04:00
Larry Finger
f5b4da21ba b43: Fix PPC crash in rfkill polling on unload
In Bugzilla No. 14181, a PowerMac G4 crashes on ifdown or
module unload because the rfkill polling has not been stopped.
For the x86 architectures, the attempt to reach a now unmapped
register is not fatal as it is on PPC.

(Includes "b43: Fix locking problem when stopping rfkill polling". -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:51 -04:00
Roel Kluin
0819663d16 mac80211: use kfree_skb() to free struct sk_buff pointers
kfree_skb() should be used to free struct sk_buff pointers.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:51 -04:00
Roel Kluin
9e7ba2465f mac80211: fix ADM8211_SYNCTL_RFtype define
A logical of shifts to the left doesn't make sense.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:51 -04:00
Bjorn Helgaas
0358bc293e iwlwifi: use %pM for formatted MAC addresses
User-visible messages should use formatted MAC addresses ("00:01:...")
rather than raw ("0001...") so they match other parts of the system.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
CC: ilw@linux.intel.com
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:51 -04:00
Michael Buesch
49d965c8f7 b43: Protect sanity check against physical device removal
Fix IRQ mask sanity check for physically pulled device.

Tested-by: Andrew Price <andy@andrewprice.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:50 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
886e71de1f iwlagn: fix compile warning in iwl5000_gain_computation
The return type of abs() was recently changed from int to long. With
min()'s type checking we thus need to make sure that values of the same
type are compared.

This fixes:

    CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c: In function ‘iwl5000_gain_computation’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c:320: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:50 -04:00
Reinette Chatre
9024adf5c8 iwlwifi: fix compile warning
Fixes following on big endian systems:
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.o
  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c: In function ‘iwl_rx_reply_rx’:
  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:1029: warning: integer overflow in
  expression

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:50 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy
722d9b1e1e iwlwifi: fix EEPROM enhance tx power offset
Set the correct EEPROM offset for enhance tx power for 6000 series

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:50 -04:00
Jay Sternberg
2facba769d iwlwifi: incorrect method used for finding valid OTP blocks
The address stored in the next link address is a word address but when
reading the OTP blocks, a byte address is used. Also if the blocks are
full and the last link pointer is not zero, then none of the blocks are
valid so return an error.

The algorithm is simply valid blocks have a next address and that
address's contents is zero.

Using the wrong address for the next link address gets arbitrary data,
obviously. In cases seen, the first block is considered valid when it is not.

If the block has in fact been invalidated there may be old data or
there may be no data, bad data, or partial data, there is no way of
telling. Without this patch it is possible that a device with valid OTP data
is unable to work.

Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:49 -04:00