Orignal code will not detect a DMA mapping failure, causing the HW
to attempt a DMA from an invalid address.
This patch add the error check and eventually simply drops the TX
packet if we can't map it for DMA.
Signed-off-by: andrea merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mapping = pci_map_single(priv->pdev, skb->data,
skb->len, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
+ if (pci_dma_mapping_error(priv->pdev, mapping)) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ dev_err(&priv->pdev->dev, "TX DMA mapping error\n");
+ return;
+
+ }
+
tx_flags = RTL818X_TX_DESC_FLAG_OWN | RTL818X_TX_DESC_FLAG_FS |
RTL818X_TX_DESC_FLAG_LS |
(ieee80211_get_tx_rate(dev, info)->hw_value << 24) |