From: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iw: scan: fix crash when driver doesn't report frame type
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:20:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180808112042.h7n3v2wxejo7ab7s@bars> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180804203111.31768-1-sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
> If driver does not know what kind of frame has been received from BSS,
> then it is possible to specify CFG80211_BSS_FTYPE_UNKNOWN
> in cfg80211_inform_bss[_width].
>
> In this case neither NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES nor NL80211_BSS_PRESP_DATA
> will be reported to userspace.
The fix is for iw tool, so the patch title is a bit confusing.
It should have been something like this:
[PATCH] iw: scan: fix crash when driver doesn't report frame type
Regards,
Sergey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-08 13:40 UTC|newest]
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2018-08-04 20:31 [PATCH] scan: fix crash when driver doesn't report frame type Sergey Matyukevich
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