This patch fixes a very serious off-by-one bug in
the driver, which could leave the device in an
unresponsive state.
The problem was that the extra_len variable [used to
reserve extra scratch buffer space for the firmware]
was left uninitialized. Because p54_assign_address
later needs the value to reserve additional space,
the resulting frame could be to big for the small
device's memory window and everything would
immediately come to a grinding halt.
Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/722185
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Conti <jason.conti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>