mwifiex: avoid processing RX packets with invalid length

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If rx_len received in interface header from FW is more than
RX buffer size, skb_put for such length results into skb_panic.
Avoid this by not processing such packets. We just print a warning
for such packets and free skb.

Reviewed-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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Avinash Patil 2014-09-12 20:08:47 +05:30 • committed by John W. Linville

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drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c

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