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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: report some VHT radiotap infos for tx status
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:35:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1375342554.8608.4.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1374918424-1305-1-git-send-email-karl.beldan@gmail.com> (sfid-20130727_114728_154202_BD456F83)

On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 11:47 +0200, Karl Beldan wrote:

> +		/* required alignment from rthdr */
> +		pos = (u8 *)rthdr + ALIGN(pos - (u8 *)rthdr, 2);

This is bad, it potentially leaks a byte of kernel data, please
explicitly clear the padding, like

if ((pos - (u8 *)rthdr) & 1)
  *pos++ = 0;

or so.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-01  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-27  9:47 [PATCH v2] mac80211: report some VHT radiotap infos for tx status Karl Beldan
2013-08-01  7:35 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-08-01  7:56   ` Karl Beldan
2013-08-01  8:07     ` Johannes Berg

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