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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: guard against invalid ptr deref

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On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 14:37 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> Without "cfg80211: ignore netif running state when
> changing iftype" it was possible for mac80211 to
> crash the system due to an unexpected (and
> incorrect) flow.
> 
> Even with cfg80211 being fixed it still makes
> sense to add a sanity check just in case.

Since the description of this makes no sense standalone, I'm not
applying this, and I'd like to ask you to change it even if we apply
both to make more sense on its own.

johannes

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