From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Add missing priv->vif assignments
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:57:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207774678.2576.3.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804091638.31525.herton@mandriva.com.br>
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:38 -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> This adds missing priv->vif assignments after "mac80211: don't use
> interface indices in drivers" change. As rtl8180, rtl8187 also needs
> priv->vif to be set, as without this an oops can happen in rtl8187_tx
> function (priv->vif is passed to ieee80211_rts_duration).
>
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
This patch fixes a potential kernel panic if RTS/CTS is used. It may be
a good candidate for 2.6.25.
If somebody has an rtl8187 (as opposed to rtl8187b) and the patch indeed
fixes RTS/CTS, please speak up.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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2008-04-09 19:38 [PATCH] rtl8187: Add missing priv->vif assignments Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-04-09 20:57 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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