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From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stefan.pietsch@lsexperts.de, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211: ignore invalid BSSIDs when looking for BSSes
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:00:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53464190.1030202@meshcoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397075965-2684-2-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net>

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On 09/04/14 22:39, Johannes Berg wrote:
> diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
> index 7d09a712cb1f..746c56ebd66c 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/scan.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
> @@ -540,6 +540,8 @@ struct cfg80211_bss *cfg80211_get_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy,
>  			continue;
>  		if (channel && bss->pub.channel != channel)
>  			continue;
> +		if (!is_valid_ether_addr(bss->pub.bssid))
> +			continue;

Wouldn't it be better to prevent such entry to end up in the bss list at
all? (i.e. filtering during the scan?)


Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-10  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-09 20:39 [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: reject invalid IBSS BSSIDs in wext compat code Johannes Berg
2014-04-09 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] cfg80211: ignore invalid BSSIDs when looking for BSSes Johannes Berg
2014-04-10  7:00   ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2014-04-10  7:59     ` Johannes Berg
2014-04-10  8:25       ` Antonio Quartulli

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