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Re: [stable] [PATCH] fix information leak in wireless extensions on 64-bit platforms

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On Friday 23 March 2007 21:51, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:27:17PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Friday 23 March 2007 21:00, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 
> > I finally have an USB ZD stick now, too. So I can test stuff, too.
> > Should I test this somehow?
> 
> 	Ok, here it goes.
> 	Pick the latest version of wtools. You may want to compile it
> static to avoid the need to install it.
> 
> 	To test the wpa patch, you need 32 bit userspace on 64 bit
> kernel, and you need to try :
> 		'iwlist genie'
> 
> 	To test the leak patch, you need a 64 kernel and any

Ok, so the most important question: Where to get the latest
versions of these patches? :)
I kind of lost track of what was agreed on and what's latest, etc..
Some link to the mail?

> userspace. You need two changes to enable the debugging code.
> 	1) Put '#define DEBUG 1' on top of iwlib.c.
> 	2) Change '#if 0' to '#if 1' line 783 of iwlist.c, at the
> bottom of print_scanning_info().
> 	Compile everything.
> 	If you do a 'iwlist scan', it should dump the full content of
> the stream. The first 4 bytes is the header (length + type). The next
> 4 bytes on 64 bits should be all zero.
> 	This is what I don't want to see :
> [19:00:1B:8B:50:8A:35:E0:09:00:01:00:50:8A:35:F0:47:6F:6C:6F:73:4E:65:74:7A
> 	This is what I want to see :
> [19:00:1B:8B:00:00:00:00:09:00:01:00:50:8A:35:F0:47:6F:6C:6F:73:4E:65:74:7A
> 	Note that du to endian considerations you may have some of
> your bytes swapped.
> 
> > Greetings Michael.
> 
> 	Good luck...
> 
> 	Jean
> 
> 

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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