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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] mac80211: avoid possible buffer overrun in sta_agg_status_write
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:30:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090213213050.GJ3581@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090208202527.GD17043@kroah.com>

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:25:27PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> John, the patch below seems to have David Miller's ack that he applied
> it to a tree back in November, but I don't see it in Linus's tree
> anywhere.  Did something happen to it?

I think Dave applied a slightly different patch to do more-or-less
the same thing.

commit 013cd397532e5803a1625954a884d021653da720
Author: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Date:   Mon Nov 10 21:37:39 2008 -0800

    mac80211: fix a buffer overrun in station debug code

    net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
    The trailing zero was written to state[4], it's out of bounds.

    Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Hth!

John
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-13 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07 20:26 [PATCH] mac80211: avoid possible buffer overrun in sta_agg_status_write John W. Linville
2009-02-08 20:25 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-02-13 21:30   ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-02-13 23:43     ` Greg KH

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