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Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: ensure priv->hwaddr is always valid

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On Monday 16 July 2007 02:34, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Do you allow monitor mode? If so, this isn't correct unless the hardware
> is explicitly told to not do anything (most hw doesn't and we use a zero
> mac addr for that). conf->mac_addr is NULL in monitor mode for a reason:
> we don't want to have any mac address so we don't ACK packets.
>
It eliminates a NULL pointer dereference, which is a bit more important than 
accidentally ACKing frames. I do not have time right now to put together a 
fix better than this.

-Michael Wu

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