Re: [patch 29/51] mac80211: pid, fix memory corruption

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:23:50AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> note that you were about to drop this one now because of waiting for a
> fixup which is not upstream so far. Did anything change?

Hm, no, I dropped a different patch,
	mac80211-minstrel-fix-memory-corruption.patch
did I drop the wrong one?


Should I bring that one back and drop the one below?

confused,

greg k-h

> (This is the one which fixes a memory corruption, but triggers a bug
> causing oopses on single band cards.)
> 
> On 05/15/2009 12:33 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 6909268dc93ae4b0b8e1ebb4b2fa70b1a47dd347 upstream.
> 
> pid doesn't count with some band having more bitrates than the one
> associated the first time.
> Fix that by counting the maximal available bitrate count and allocate
> big enough space.
> 
> Secondly, fix touching uninitialized memory which causes panics.
> Index sucked from this random memory points to the hell.
> The fix is to sort the rates on each band change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
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