rtlwifi: Fix error when accessing unmapped memory in skb
These drivers use 9100-byte receive buffers, thus allocating an skb requires an O(3) memory allocation. Under heavy memory loads and fragmentation, such a request can fail. Previous versions of the driver have dropped the packet and reused the old buffer; however, the new version introduced a bug in that it released the old buffer before trying to allocate a new one. The previous method is implemented here. The skb is unmapped before any attempt is made to allocate another. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.18] Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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