From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
To: Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>,
Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>, Zhiyuan Yang <yangzy@marvell.com>,
James Cao <jcao@marvell.com>,
Mangesh Malusare <mmangesh@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: avoid storing random_mac in private
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:27:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170918162659.GA59044@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505717702-10342-1-git-send-email-gbhat@marvell.com>
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:25:02PM +0530, Ganapathi Bhat wrote:
> Application will keep track of whether MAC address randomization
> is enabled or not during scan. But at present driver is storing
> 'random_mac' in mwifiex_private which implies even after scan is
> done driver has some reference to the earlier 'scan request'. To
> avoid this, make use of 'mac_addr' variable in 'scan_request' to
> store 'random_mac'. This structure will be freed by cfg80211 once
> scan is done.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-18 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-18 6:55 [PATCH] mwifiex: avoid storing random_mac in private Ganapathi Bhat
2017-09-18 16:27 ` Brian Norris [this message]
2017-09-20 12:48 ` Kalle Valo
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