The length of the SSID desired should also be compared in addition to the memcmp of the SSIDs. Thanks to Andrea Merello <andreamrl@xxxxxxxxxx> for finding this issue. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- This should also go to stable. net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c index 7c93f29..dd5415d 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c @@ -2098,7 +2098,8 @@ static int ieee80211_sta_match_ssid(struct ieee80211_if_sta *ifsta, { int tmp, hidden_ssid; - if (!memcmp(ifsta->ssid, ssid, ssid_len)) + if (ssid_len == ifsta->ssid_len && + !memcmp(ifsta->ssid, ssid, ssid_len)) return 1; if (ifsta->flags & IEEE80211_STA_AUTO_BSSID_SEL) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html