Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: minstrel, fix memory corruption

John W. Linville
2009-05-15T18:45:18Z

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:21:31PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 04.05.2009, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
> > minstrel doesn't count max rate count in fact, since it doesn't use
> > a loop variable `i' and hence allocs space only for bitrates found in
> > the first band.
> [....]
>
> This patchset crashes my WLAN. Reverting it does fix this:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/0002-mac80211-avoid-NULL-ptr-deref-when-finding-max_rate.patch

Original pull request here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124214056932143&w=2

Unfortunately, I think Dave might have limited availability right now...

John
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