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rtlwifi: Fix IOMMU mapping leak in AP mode
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:16:05 +0000 (15:16 -0500)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Sun, 22 Mar 2015 05:52:25 +0000 (07:52 +0200)
commit84bcd7cd40726cf07a02eb7ffea09c3daec9e79d
tree7d43fedefa36a0a82bbdb68874872190e861d5da
parent29b95986cc200d17989f6b663687bc4c9696868c
rtlwifi: Fix IOMMU mapping leak in AP mode

Transmission of an AP beacon does not call the TX interrupt service routine,
which usually does the cleanup. Instead, cleanup is handled in a tasklet
completion routine. Unfortunately, this routine has a serious bug in that it does
not release the DMA mapping before it frees the skb, thus one IOMMU mapping is
leaked for each beacon. The test system failed with no free IOMMU mapping slots
approximately one hour after hostapd was used to start an AP.

This issue was reported and tested at https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/issues/30.

Reported-and-tested-by: Kevin Mullican <kevin@mullican.com>
Cc: Kevin Mullican <kevin@mullican.com>
Signed-off-by: Shao Fu <shaofu@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.18+]
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c