Re: [REGRESSION] Patch broke WPA auth: Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: cfg80211: Fix use after free for wext

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Mar 11 2023 - 07:30:25 EST


On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 12:03:44PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Hector,
>
> On 3/11/23 10:55, Hector Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This broke WPA auth entirely on brcmfmac (in offload mode) and probably
> > others, including on stable 6.2.3 and 6.3-rc1 (tested with iwd). Please
> > revert or fix. Notes below.
> >
> > Reported-by: Ilya <me@xxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > #regzbot introduced: 015b8cc5e7c4d7
> > #regzbot monitor:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20230124141856.356646-1-alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> I can confirm this bug, I was seeing broken wifi on brcmfmac with 6.3-rc1
> and I was about to start a git bisect for this this morning when I saw
> this email.
>
> Reverting 015b8cc5e7c4d7 fixes the broken wifi. Hector, thank you, you
> just saved me from a bisect on somewhat slow hardware :)

Great, can someone submit the revert patch to the networking tree so we
can get this resolved quickly?

thanks,

greg k-h