From lcostantino@gmail.com Tue Feb 17 18:07:38 2009 From: leandro Costantino Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:16:26 -0500 Subject: Staging: rtl8187se: Fix oops and memory poison caused by builtin ieee80211. To: gregkh@suse.de Message-ID: when modprobe and removing rtl8187se ( just for testing, i do not have that card , and oops and a memory poison error happens on the builtin ieee80211 of that driver. I dont know if they will port it to the current ieeee80221 instead of the builtin ones, but just in case i attach a proposed fix for that problem. - Change for loop on ieee80211_crypto_deinit for list_for_each_safe to remove items. Is there an spinlock needed here? - Call ieee80211_crypto_deinit after exiting all registerd crypto protocols. Signed-off-by: Costantino Leandro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.c | 19 +++++++++--------- drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c | 2 - 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.c @@ -234,20 +234,21 @@ out: void ieee80211_crypto_deinit(void) { struct list_head *ptr, *n; + struct ieee80211_crypto_alg *alg = NULL; if (hcrypt == NULL) return; - for (ptr = hcrypt->algs.next, n = ptr->next; ptr != &hcrypt->algs; - ptr = n, n = ptr->next) { - struct ieee80211_crypto_alg *alg = - (struct ieee80211_crypto_alg *) ptr; - list_del(ptr); - printk(KERN_DEBUG "ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm " - "'%s' (deinit)\n", alg->ops->name); - kfree(alg); + list_for_each_safe(ptr, n, &hcrypt->algs) { + alg = list_entry(ptr, struct ieee80211_crypto_alg, list); + if (alg) { + list_del(ptr); + printk(KERN_DEBUG + "ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm '%s' (deinit)\n", + alg->ops->name); + kfree(alg); + } } - kfree(hcrypt); } --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c @@ -6161,10 +6161,10 @@ static void __exit rtl8180_pci_module_ex { pci_unregister_driver (&rtl8180_pci_driver); rtl8180_proc_module_remove(); - ieee80211_crypto_deinit(); ieee80211_crypto_tkip_exit(); ieee80211_crypto_ccmp_exit(); ieee80211_crypto_wep_exit(); + ieee80211_crypto_deinit(); DMESG("Exiting"); }