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* [PATCH] cfg80211: fix truncated IEs
@ 2009-04-30 18:09 Johannes Berg
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2009-04-30 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Linville; +Cc: linux-wireless

Another bug in the "cfg80211: do not replace BSS structs" patch,
a forgotten length update leads to bogus data being stored and
passed to userspace, often truncated.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
---
 net/wireless/scan.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- wireless-testing.orig/net/wireless/scan.c	2009-04-30 19:37:39.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/wireless/scan.c	2009-04-30 19:37:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ cfg80211_bss_update(struct cfg80211_regi
 					memcpy(ies, res->pub.information_elements, ielen);
 					found->ies_allocated = true;
 					found->pub.information_elements = ies;
+					found->pub.len_information_elements = ielen;
 				}
 			}
 		}



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