rtlwifi: Fix IOMMU mapping leak in AP mode

Transmission of an AP beacon does not call the TX interrupt service routine,
which usually does the cleanup. Instead, cleanup is handled in a tasklet
completion routine. Unfortunately, this routine has a serious bug in that it does
not release the DMA mapping before it frees the skb, thus one IOMMU mapping is
leaked for each beacon. The test system failed with no free IOMMU mapping slots
approximately one hour after hostapd was used to start an AP.

This issue was reported and tested at https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/issues/30.

Reported-and-tested-by: Kevin Mullican <kevin@mullican.com>
Cc: Kevin Mullican <kevin@mullican.com>
Signed-off-by: Shao Fu <shaofu@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>  [3.18+]
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Larry Finger 2015-03-21 15:16:05 -05:00 committed by Kalle Valo
parent f93a25b38c
commit be0b5e6358
1 changed files with 11 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -1124,12 +1124,22 @@ static void _rtl_pci_prepare_bcn_tasklet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
/*This is for new trx flow*/
struct rtl_tx_buffer_desc *pbuffer_desc = NULL;
u8 temp_one = 1;
u8 *entry;
memset(&tcb_desc, 0, sizeof(struct rtl_tcb_desc));
ring = &rtlpci->tx_ring[BEACON_QUEUE];
pskb = __skb_dequeue(&ring->queue);
if (pskb)
if (rtlpriv->use_new_trx_flow)
entry = (u8 *)(&ring->buffer_desc[ring->idx]);
else
entry = (u8 *)(&ring->desc[ring->idx]);
if (pskb) {
pci_unmap_single(rtlpci->pdev,
rtlpriv->cfg->ops->get_desc(
(u8 *)entry, true, HW_DESC_TXBUFF_ADDR),
pskb->len, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
kfree_skb(pskb);
}
/*NB: the beacon data buffer must be 32-bit aligned. */
pskb = ieee80211_beacon_get(hw, mac->vif);