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From: Greg KH on 14 Apr 2010 12:30
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:09:50PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Hi
>
> On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 01:16:06AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > On Sunday 11 April 2010, gregkh(a)suse.de wrote:
> > > > This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
> > > >
> > > > Subject: iwlwifi: counting number of tfds can be free for 4965
> > > >
> > > > to the 2.6.33-stable tree. Its filename is
> > > >
> > > > iwlwifi-counting-number-of-tfds-can-be-free-for-4965.patch
> > > >
> > > > A git repo of this tree can be found at
> > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > > >
> > > > From be6b38bcb175613f239e0b302607db346472c6b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > > From: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy(a)intel.com>
> > > > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:05:00 -0700
> > > > Subject: iwlwifi: counting number of tfds can be free for 4965
> > > >
> > > > From: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy(a)intel.com>
> > > >
> > > > commit be6b38bcb175613f239e0b302607db346472c6b6 upstream.
> > > >
> > > > Forget one hunk in 4965 during "iwlwifi: error checking for number of tfds
> > > > in queue" patch.
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > With this patch applied as part of the current -stable queue for 2.6.33,
> > > I've gotten feedback from two different IPW4965 users on amd64 and i386
> > > architectures that they're getting a kernel panic while booting:
> >
> > Yes, there is a follow-up patch that just went to Linus to fix this
> > issue. I should be picking it up in a day or so.
> [...]
>
> Thanks, the updated queue-2.6.33 (which means likely iwlwifi-need-check-for-
> valid-qos-packet-before-free.patch) indeed fixes the problem for both
> users.

Wonderful, thanks for verifying this, I appreciate it.

greg k-h
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