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Re: [PATCH 1/1] wireless: mac80211: Avoid using uninitialized stack data

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 14:14 -0500, Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Avoid case where we would access uninitialized stack data if a driver
>> advertises HT support without 40MHz channel support.
>
> I've fixed the commit message (it's actually in the check for the *AP*,
> not the driver!)
>
> Also, this is complicated. We originally had the DISABLE_VHT, but then
> found APs that were doing it wrong - see commit f3000e1b43f1 ("mac80211:
> fix broken use of VHT/20Mhz with some APs"). That fix introduced the bug
> here, going back now to the DISABLE_VHT as I'd suggested would break the
> fix again ... I'm thus taking this version to just put the right data on
> the stack, with the correct Fixes/Cc stable tags.

Either patch works for me, so I'm all good! Thanks for fixing this up!

Cheers,
Jes
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