From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>,
"Ben Hutchings" <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH NEXT] rtlwifi: Fix endian error in extracting packet type
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:16:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527017A3.9020109@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y55cf8yq.fsf@nemi.mork.no>
On 10/29/2013 09:27 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>
> It's not validating the upper 8 bits of the port numbers either, so it
> will hit random UDP traffic in addition to DHCP.
>
> But it was good to see this function now. I was wondering how to support
> some buggy 3G modem firmware without ugly hacks. Seems there will always
> be worse hacks in drivers/net, no matter what I do :-)
I'm happy that Realtek and I could make your day. The next version is checking
the full 16-bit port numbers.
Thanks,
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-29 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-28 23:28 [PATCH NEXT] rtlwifi: Fix endian error in extracting packet type Larry Finger
2013-10-29 0:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-10-29 14:27 ` Bjørn Mork
2013-10-29 20:16 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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