From: Tim Gardner <rtg.canonical@gmail.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>,
Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] rtlwifi: rtl8192se firmware load can overflow target buffer
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:34:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3C08B4.8010103@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3C0421.20506@lwfinger.net>
On 02/15/2012 12:14 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 12:55 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
>> Is this a fix that should go to 3.3?
>
> That code has been in the driver since 3.0 and it should probably be
> packported. On the other hand, Tim's report is the first one. My
> suggestion is that it go into 3.4.
>
> In addition, I am working on a fix that will completely eliminate all
> this fixed storage.
>
> Larry
>
>
I'm fine with it being 3.4 material. The patch addresses an unlikely
scenario.
rtg
--
Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-15 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-10 0:19 [PATCH v3] rtlwifi: rtl8192se firmware load can overflow target buffer Larry Finger
2012-02-15 18:55 ` John W. Linville
2012-02-15 19:14 ` Larry Finger
2012-02-15 19:34 ` Tim Gardner [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-08 21:08 [PATCH] " Tim Gardner
2012-02-08 21:45 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-09 2:30 ` Larry Finger
2012-02-09 14:41 ` Tim Gardner
2012-02-09 16:43 ` Larry Finger
2012-02-09 17:25 ` [PATCH v3] " Tim Gardner
2012-02-10 0:21 ` Larry Finger
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