[PATCH] iwlwifi: dvm: fix zero LQ CMD sending avoidance

Josh Boyer jwboyer at redhat.com
Wed May 22 12:26:25 UTC 2013


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:55:00AM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
> 
> In 63b77bf489881747c5118476918cc8c29378ee63
> 
> 	iwlwifi: dvm: don't send zeroed LQ cmd
> 
> I tried to avoid to send zeroed LQ cmd, but I made a (very)
> stupid mistake in the memcmp.
> Since this patch has been ported to stable, the fix should
> go to stable too.
> 
> This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58341
> 
> Change-Id: I0af4b3fdd537a1f674e85eb02dc0f5b5ac1ee7ac
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen at fu-berlin.de>
> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
> ---
> Josh, this fix ugly -stable 3.8, 3.9 regression, please apply.

Applied.  Thanks!

josh

> 
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c
> index 5175368..8212097 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c
> @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ void iwl_restore_stations(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_rxon_context *ctx)
>  					memcpy(&lq, priv->stations[i].lq,
>  					       sizeof(struct iwl_link_quality_cmd));
>  
> -				if (!memcmp(&lq, &zero_lq, sizeof(lq)))
> +				if (memcmp(&lq, &zero_lq, sizeof(lq)))
>  					send_lq = true;
>  			}
>  			spin_unlock_bh(&priv->sta_lock);
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 


More information about the kernel mailing list