Re: [PATCH 4.4, 4.9, 4.14, 4.19] nl80211: validate beacon head

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 11:44:03AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 11:43 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > +	for_each_element(elem, data, len) {
> > > +		/* nothing */
> > > +	}
> > 
> > for_each_element() is not in 4.4, 4.9, 4.14, or 4.19, so this breaks the
> > build :(
> 
> Oh, right. I had previously also said:
> 
> You also need to cherry-pick
> 0f3b07f027f8 ("cfg80211: add and use strongly typed element iteration macros")
> 7388afe09143 ("cfg80211: Use const more consistently in for_each_element macros")
> 
> as dependencies - the latter doesn't apply cleanly as it has a change
> that doesn't apply, but that part of the change isn't necessary.

Ok, that worked, thanks.  Well, almost worked, I had to do a bit more
effort for 4.4.y, but all looks good now.

thanks,

greg k-h