From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>,
davem@davemloft.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: minstrel, fix memory corruption
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:33:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090515183319.GF2773@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090515182131.GA6439@fancy-poultry.org>
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:21:31PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 04.05.2009, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
> > minstrel doesn't count max rate count in fact, since it doesn't use
> > a loop variable `i' and hence allocs space only for bitrates found in
> > the first band.
> [....]
>
> This patchset crashes my WLAN. Reverting it does fix this:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/0002-mac80211-avoid-NULL-ptr-deref-when-finding-max_rate.patch
Original pull request here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124214056932143&w=2
Unfortunately, I think Dave might have limited availability right now...
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-15 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 16:04 [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: minstrel, fix memory corruption Jiri Slaby
2009-05-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: pid, " Jiri Slaby
2009-05-04 16:07 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-04 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 " Jiri Slaby
2009-05-04 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: minstrel, " Bob Copeland
2009-05-04 16:40 ` Felix Fietkau
2009-05-04 18:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-05-04 18:41 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-05-15 18:21 ` Heinz Diehl
2009-05-15 18:33 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-05-15 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-15 18:53 ` John W. Linville
2009-05-15 21:25 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-05-15 21:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-15 18:40 ` Jiri Slaby
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2009-05-05 18:43 Karol Szuster
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