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Re: ath9k rate control API abuse

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On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:10 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I decided to review ath9k as well wrt. the RC algorithm (Intel stuff
> coming later). It doesn't exactly have the same deficiencies as the
> Intel drivers, but it's still very very very fragile.
> 
> For example, you can make it crash with a double-free like this:
> 
> # iwconfig wlan0 frag 300

As a band-aid, you can provide the set_frag_threshold function and have
it do nothing.

johannes

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