tree d56f68c680cec8c376017c66bbe5851f25218252
parent 208c72f4fe44fe09577e7975ba0e7fa0278f3d03
author Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> 1305818224 -0500
committer John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 1306439009 -0400

rtlwifi: Fix kernel panic resulting from RX buffer allocation failure

To handle amsdu_8k capability, the PCI routine of this driver must
allocate receive buffers of order 2. Under heavy load, this causes
fragmentation of memory. The present code releases the current buffer
before checking to see if a new one is availble. Recovery from
allocation failures is not possible, which results in kernel panics.

The fix is to reorder the code to check that a new buffer can be
allocated before the old one is released. If not possible, the
received frame is dropped and the old one is reused. Without this
change, it is impossible to transfer a 2 GB file without a kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>              [2.6.{37,38,39}]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>