Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-git19] BUG due to bad argument to ieee80211softmac_assoc_work

From: Michael Bommarito
Date: Thu Dec 14 2006 - 16:49:12 EST


Hello Uli,
Yes, apologies, I had been waiting for an abandoned bugzilla entry
to get attention, and when I realized it was assigned to a dead-end, I
had simply posted the patch without checking for prior messages.
I was further confused by the fact that it hadn't made its way into
any of the 19-gitX sets (and for that matter, the window for
2.6.20-rc1 has come and gone and this still remains unfixed), despite
how clear the error was and how trivial the fix seems.

-Mike

On 12/14/06, Uli Kunitz <kune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael,

I sent a patch to this list on Sunday, that patched the problem. It
seems to be migrated into the wireless-2.6 git tree.

Regards,

Uli
Am 13.12.2006 um 19:17 schrieb Michael Bommarito:

> This didn't get much attention on bugzilla and I figured it was
> important enough to forward along to the whole list since it's been
> lingering around in ieee80211-softmac since 19-git5 at least.
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7657
>
> Somebody was passing the whole mac device structure to
> ieee80211softmac_assoc_work instead of just the assocation work, which
> lead to much death and locking.
>
> Attached is a patch that fixes this (the actual change is two lines
> but context provided in patch for review). The dmesg containing call
> trace is attached to the bugzilla entry above.
>
> -Mike
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