From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] nl80211: New command for adding extra IE(s) into management frames
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:07:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231772845.3591.4.camel@johannes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090112150348.GA14029@jm.kir.nu>
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On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 17:03 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > Should we sanity-check the input? E.g. in nl80211, ensure that it's
> > (<type><len><data...>)* with <len> being correct and no final padding?
> > And maybe that there isn't anything in those IEs that we've already
> > added, like an SSID?
>
> [snip long explanation]
Ok, makes sense, let's leave it as-is then, we allow root to shoot
himself into the foot anyway.
johannes
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 12:26 [RFC] nl80211: New command for adding extra IE(s) into management frames Jouni Malinen
2009-01-12 13:08 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-12 13:50 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-12 14:26 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-12 14:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-12 15:03 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-01-12 15:07 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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