[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "rtlwifi: fix incorrect use of usb_alloc_coherent with" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rtlwifi: fix incorrect use of usb_alloc_coherent with

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 90b6901690c742a8011ef383499d187163b275af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna at mbnet.fi>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:24:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] rtlwifi: fix incorrect use of usb_alloc_coherent with
 usb_control_msg

commit 4c3de5920c486b8eefa6187ee6a181864c161100 upstream.

Incorrect use of usb_alloc_coherent memory as input buffer to usb_control_msg
can cause problems in arch DMA code, for example kernel BUG at
'arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h:321' on ARM (linux-3.4).

Change _usb_writeN_sync use kmalloc'd buffer instead.

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna at mbnet.fi>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
index aa970fc..8fa144f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -210,17 +210,16 @@ static void _usb_writeN_sync(struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv, u32 addr, void *data,
 	u16 index = REALTEK_USB_VENQT_CMD_IDX;
 	int pipe = usb_sndctrlpipe(udev, 0); /* write_out */
 	u8 *buffer;
-	dma_addr_t dma_addr;

-	wvalue = (u16)(addr&0x0000ffff);
-	buffer = usb_alloc_coherent(udev, (size_t)len, GFP_ATOMIC, &dma_addr);
+	wvalue = (u16)(addr & 0x0000ffff);
+	buffer = kmalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!buffer)
 		return;
 	memcpy(buffer, data, len);
 	usb_control_msg(udev, pipe, request, reqtype, wvalue,
 			index, buffer, len, 50);

-	usb_free_coherent(udev, (size_t)len, buffer, dma_addr);
+	kfree(buffer);
 }

 static void _rtl_usb_io_handler_init(struct device *dev,
--
1.7.9.5