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Re: [RFC] nl80211: New command for adding extra IE(s) into management frames

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On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 17:03 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> > Should we sanity-check the input? E.g. in nl80211, ensure that it's
> > (<type><len><data...>)* with <len> being correct and no final padding?
> > And maybe that there isn't anything in those IEs that we've already
> > added, like an SSID?
> 
> [snip long explanation]

Ok, makes sense, let's leave it as-is then, we allow root to shoot
himself into the foot anyway.

johannes

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