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2020-04-14	b43legacy: Fix case where channel status is corrupted	Larry Finger
	This patch fixes commit 75388acd0cd8 ("add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices") In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207093, a defect in b43legacy is reported. Upon testing, thus problem exists on PPC and X86 platforms, is present in the oldest kernel tested (3.2), and has been present in the driver since it was first added to the kernel. The problem is a corrupted channel status received from the device. Both the internal card in a PowerBook G4 and the PCMCIA version (Broadcom BCM4306 with PCI ID 14e4:4320) have the problem. Only Rev, 2 (revision 4 of the 802.11 core) of the chip has been tested. No other devices using b43legacy are available for testing. Various sources of the problem were considered. Buffer overrun and other sources of corruption within the driver were rejected because the faulty channel status is always the same, not a random value. It was concluded that the faulty data is coming from the device, probably due to a firmware bug. As that source is not available, the driver must take appropriate action to recover. At present, the driver reports the error, and them continues to process the bad packet. This is believed that to be a mistake, and the correct action is to drop the correpted packet. Fixes: 75388acd0cd8 ("add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices") Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Reported-and-tested by: F. Erhard <erhard_f@mailbox.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200407190043.1686-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
2019-05-21	treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 20	Thomas Gleixner
	Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program see the file copying if not write to the free software foundation inc 51 franklin steet fifth floor boston ma 02110 1301 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 41 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com> Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154042.524645346@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-04-12	cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_band	Johannes Berg
	This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-11-18	b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory	Kalle Valo
	Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>