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mwl8k: fix NULL pointer dereference on receive out-of-memory

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When we go into out-of-memory and fail to allocate skbuffs to
refill the receive ring with, rxq_process can end up running into
a receive ring entry that is marked as host-owned but doesn't have
an associated skbuff.  If this happens, we must break out of the
rx processing loop instead of trying to process the descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Lennert Buytenhek 2009-08-03 21:58:26 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
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commit d25f9f1357
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drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
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@ -1012,6 +1012,8 @@ static int rxq_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, int limit)
rmb();
skb = rxq->rx_skb[rxq->rx_head];
if (skb == NULL)
break;
rxq->rx_skb[rxq->rx_head] = NULL;
rxq->rx_head = (rxq->rx_head + 1) % MWL8K_RX_DESCS;