2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: David Woodhouse commit e9024a059f2c17fb2bfab212ee9d31511d7b8e57 upstream. On a 64-bit kernel, skb->tail is an offset, not a pointer. The libertas usb driver passes it to usb_fill_bulk_urb() anyway, causing interesting crashes. Fix that by using skb->data instead. This highlights a problem with usb_fill_bulk_urb(). It doesn't notice when dma_map_single() fails and return the error to its caller as it should. In fact it _can't_ currently return the error, since it returns void. So this problem was showing up only at unmap time, after we'd already suffered memory corruption by doing DMA to a bogus address. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static int __if_usb_submit_rx_urb(struct /* Fill the receive configuration URB and initialise the Rx call back */ usb_fill_bulk_urb(cardp->rx_urb, cardp->udev, usb_rcvbulkpipe(cardp->udev, cardp->ep_in), - (void *) (skb->tail + (size_t) IPFIELD_ALIGN_OFFSET), + skb->data + IPFIELD_ALIGN_OFFSET, MRVDRV_ETH_RX_PACKET_BUFFER_SIZE, callbackfn, cardp); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/