Re: Regression in 2.6.27-git from commit 43ac2ca3840f64

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

John W. Linville wrote:
> From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: do not aggregate IEs from scan results
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/scan.c |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
> index 416bb41..51ed74d 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
> @@ -728,8 +728,6 @@ static void ieee80211_scan_add_ies(struct iw_request_info *info,
>  
>  	while (end - pos > IW_GENERIC_IE_MAX) {
>  		next = pos + 2 + pos[1];
> -		while (next + 2 + next[1] - pos < IW_GENERIC_IE_MAX)
> -			next = next + 2 + next[1];
>  
>  		memset(&iwe, 0, sizeof(iwe));
>  		iwe.cmd = IWEVGENIE;

No, this patch does not fix the problem.

Larry