linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 043/346] iwlwifi: pcie: fix access to scratch buffer

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:14:20 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Sara Sharon" <sara.sharon@...el.com>,
        "Luca Coelho" <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 043/346] iwlwifi: pcie: fix access to scratch buffer

3.16.39-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@...el.com>

commit d5d0689aefc59c6a5352ca25d7e6d47d03f543ce upstream.

This fixes a pretty ancient bug that hasn't manifested itself
until now.
The scratchbuf for command queue is allocated only for 32 slots
but is accessed with the queue write pointer - which can be
up to 256.
Since the scratch buf size was 16 and there are up to 256 TFDs
we never passed a page boundary when accessing the scratch buffer,
but when attempting to increase the size of the scratch buffer a
panic was quick to follow when trying to access the address resulted
in a page boundary.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@...el.com>
Fixes: 38c0f334b359 ("iwlwifi: use coherent DMA memory for command header")
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
@@ -1364,9 +1364,9 @@ static int iwl_pcie_enqueue_hcmd(struct
 
 	/* start the TFD with the scratchbuf */
 	scratch_size = min_t(int, copy_size, IWL_HCMD_SCRATCHBUF_SIZE);
-	memcpy(&txq->scratchbufs[q->write_ptr], &out_cmd->hdr, scratch_size);
+	memcpy(&txq->scratchbufs[idx], &out_cmd->hdr, scratch_size);
 	iwl_pcie_txq_build_tfd(trans, txq,
-			       iwl_pcie_get_scratchbuf_dma(txq, q->write_ptr),
+			       iwl_pcie_get_scratchbuf_dma(txq, idx),
 			       scratch_size, true);
 
 	/* map first command fragment, if any remains */