This patch fixes regression caused by commit a16dad7763 "MIPS: Fix
potencial corruption". That commit fixes one corruption scenario in
cost of adding another one, which actually start to cause crashes
on Yeeloong laptop when rtl8187 driver is used.
For correct DMA read operation on machines without DMA coherence, kernel
have to invalidate cache, such it will refill later with new data that
device wrote to memory, when that data is needed to process. We can only
invalidate full cache line. Hence when cache line includes both dma
buffer and some other data (written in cache, but not yet in main
memory), the other data can not hit memory due to invalidation. That
happen on rtl8187 where struct rtl8187_priv fields are located just
before and after small buffers that are passed to USB layer and DMA
is performed on them.
To fix the problem we align buffers and reserve space after them to make
them match cache line.
This patch does not resolve all possible MIPS problems entirely, for
that we have to assure that we always map cache aligned buffers for DMA,
what can be complex or even not possible. But patch fixes visible and
reproducible regression and seems other possible corruptions do not
happen in practice, since Yeeloong laptop works stable without rtl8187
driver.
Bug report:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54391
Reported-by: Petr Pisar <petr.pisar@atlas.cz>
Bisected-by: Tom Li <biergaizi2009@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Tom Li <biergaizi2009@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.next>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
A lot of files contain reference to my old e-mail address.
Now I'm going not to read mail from it anymore, so update it
with my current address everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add AD-HOC support to the rtl8187 based on the rtl8180 source
Signed-off-by: Attila Fazekas <turul64@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver for the RTL8187L chips returns IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK for all
packets, even if the maximum number of retries was exhausted. In addition
it fails to setup max_rates in the ieee80211_hw struct, This behavior
may be responsible for the problems noted in Bug 14168. As the bug is very
old, testers have not been found, and I do not have the case where the
indicated signal is less than -70 dBm.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These drivers share one header file, but nothing else. Worse, both
drivers use the rtl8225 part with different register settings. The
results has been some ugly naming -- let's simplify that.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Stanislaw Gruszka