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

From: Felix Fietkau
Date: Mon May 04 2009 - 13:20:06 EST


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.
>
> Fix it by involving the `i' as an index so that it traverses all the
> bands now and finds the real max bitrate count.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Good catch!

Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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