android_kernel_lge_bullhead/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x
Stanislaw Gruszka 0dba4d31d9 rtl8187: fix regression on MIPS without coherent DMA
commit b6213e413a4e0c66548153516b074df14f9d08e0 upstream.

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>
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-03-06 21:30:02 -08:00
..
rtl8180 mac80211: Use a cfg80211_chan_def in ieee80211_hw_conf_chan 2013-03-25 19:19:35 +01:00
rtl8187 rtl8187: fix regression on MIPS without coherent DMA 2014-03-06 21:30:02 -08:00
Kconfig drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2013-01-22 12:01:35 -08:00
Makefile rtl818x: move rtl8180 and rtl8187 to separate subdirectories 2010-12-22 13:45:32 -05:00
rtl818x.h