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Re: [RFC PATCH] introduce WEXT scan capabilities

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:15:27PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > 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

	Please check again...

	Jean
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