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Re: iwlwifi bug when extending a channel struct

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:41:00PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> I ran into an issue with iwlagn when working on some patches for cfg80211.
> Initially I thought it was my own patches (even though they didn't touch
> iwlagn) due to some horrible memory corruption issue. As it turns out it
> was my patches but I can reproduce this with this simple patch below.
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/wireless.h b/include/net/wireless.h
> index d815aa8..64a1925 100644
> --- a/include/net/wireless.h
> +++ b/include/net/wireless.h
> @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct ieee80211_channel {
>  	int max_power;
>  	u32 orig_flags;
>  	int orig_mag, orig_mpwr;
> +	bool bug;
>  };
>  
>  /**
> 
> What ends up happening is the wiphy's band channels get all mangled up

So after a fresh kernel install and reboot I do not see this issue any more,
so who knows WTF was going on.

  Luis
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