From: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:08:50 -0500 > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:58:42PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:00:16 -0800 > > > > > This is a special version of Wireless Tools with some debug > > > code. It will help me understand what's happening with the bus error > > > while scanning and see what fix I can come up with. > > > What you need to do is : > > > o untar, make > > > o ./iwlist scan > scan.log > > > And send me the result. > > > > I already know what's happening. Your "fixup" code is deferencing > > the wrong part of the iw_point pointer, it only works on little > > endian. > > > > The fix is to remove the userland fixup code entirely and fixup > > the stream in the kernel. > > What a mess...are there going to be userland ABI implications of this? > Hopefully the fact that 64-bit kernels were just broken is enough > justifcation to fix this? I think we'll be OK, to my knowledge only the wireless tools tried to "correct" this in userspace and it only triggers when a specific length check fails. So if we fix the kernel, the length check won't trigger any more and things will just work. - 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
