From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.7
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:56:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040617065607.GA11999@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040616121850.GO12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Jun-16 2004, Wed, 13:18 +0100
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> wrote:
> > 2.6.7's airo.ko (unlike 2.6.6's) won't allow the user to set
> > ESSID via "echo myessid >/proc/driver/aironet/ethX/SSID".
> >
> > Changes like this shouldn't probably be made in the middle
> > of a stable series.
>
> Changes like this are called bugs. The thing is, original variant of
> function (actually, both read and write) was also buggy and trivially
> exploitable, so fixing it was needed. Fscking it up was not, obviously.
Sure, I just assumed somebody had done this on purpose.
> Fix follows; see if it works for you.
Works for me, thanks.
--
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-17 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-16 5:56 Linux 2.6.7 Linus Torvalds
2004-06-16 6:58 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2004-06-16 14:56 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-06-16 7:10 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-06-16 8:07 ` JFS compilation fix [was Re: Linux 2.6.7] Tomas Szepe
2004-06-16 12:55 ` Dave Kleikamp
2004-06-16 12:59 ` Dave Kleikamp
2004-06-16 13:05 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-06-16 9:58 ` Linux 2.6.7 (stty rows 50 columns 140 reports : No such device or address) Zilvinas Valinskas
2004-06-16 12:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-16 13:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-16 16:38 ` jsimmons
2004-06-16 14:17 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2004-06-16 16:37 ` jsimmons
2004-06-16 21:17 ` Egmont Koblinger
2004-06-16 21:45 ` jsimmons
2004-06-16 11:13 ` Linux 2.6.7 Tomas Szepe
2004-06-16 12:18 ` viro
2004-06-17 6:56 ` Tomas Szepe [this message]
2004-06-16 13:27 ` Linux 2.6.7 - problem with old gcc Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-06-16 16:09 ` Linux 2.6.7 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-06-16 16:31 ` Linux 2.6.7 Dominik Karall
2004-06-16 18:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-16 17:42 ` Linux 2.6.7 - ACPI still broken Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-06-17 4:15 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-06-17 15:22 ` Linux 2.6.7 Sean Neakums
2004-06-18 4:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 16:37 ` 2.6.7 Samba OOPS (in smb_readdir) Brice Goglin
2004-06-18 16:41 ` Brice Goglin
2004-06-18 17:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-06-18 19:00 ` Christophe Saout
2004-06-18 19:22 ` Christophe Saout
2004-06-18 19:52 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-06-19 20:35 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-06-19 20:49 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-06-19 20:52 ` Christophe Saout
2004-06-20 0:27 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-06-20 0:28 ` Christophe Saout
2004-06-20 0:36 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-06-20 0:40 ` Christophe Saout
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20040617065607.GA11999@louise.pinerecords.com \
--to=szepe@pinerecords.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=netdev@oss.sgi.com \
--cc=viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox