From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Staging: wlan-ng: memsetting the wrong amount of data
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:08:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F44A279.7010403@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120222075438.GA3680@mwanda>
Am 22.02.2012 08:54, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:39:42PM +0100, walter harms wrote:
>>> - memset(&(msg1.bssid.data), 0xFF, sizeof(p80211item_pstr6_t));
>>> + memset(&msg1.bssid.data, 0xFF, sizeof(msg1.bssid.data));
>>> msg1.bssid.data.len = 6;
>>
>> maybe msg1.bssid.data.len is related to msg1.bssid.data ?
>> I guess sizeof(msg1.bssid.data)-1 (why -1).
>>
>> perhaps you can fix both ?
>>
>
> It's an interesting point. The problem is that I don't actually
> have this hardware. On the patch which I sent, it was obvious what
> the intent. My guess is that msg1.bssid.data[] should have 6
> elements instead of 7, but I don't feel confident enough to sign off
> on that.
>
> Let's fix this bug which is obvious and let someone who knows how to
> fix that other question address it.
>
Now it lokks better than before, lets wait what the maintainer can say about this.
otherwise what about a /* FIXME: */ ?
re,
wh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-22 8:16 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20120221141838.GA7998@elgon.mountain>
[not found] ` <4F43C8CE.8060602@bfs.de>
2012-02-22 7:54 ` [patch] Staging: wlan-ng: memsetting the wrong amount of data Dan Carpenter
2012-02-22 8:08 ` walter harms [this message]
2012-02-23 22:55 ` Pavel Roskin
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