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> Do either of those sound better to you than extending struct iw_range?

Because wext is stupidly defined, you can never extend any structures it
uses. Wext never passes in the length that userspace expects to passing
in longer structures than the fixed one userspace expects will always
overwrite something in userspace, possibly on the stack.

johannes

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