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Re: [PATCH 6/8] mac80211: add skb length sanity checking

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 05:28:40PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> We just found a bug in zd1211rw where it would reject
> packets in the ->tx() method but leave them modified,
> which would cause retransmit attempts with completely
> bogus skbs, eventually leading to a panic due to not
> having enough headroom in those.
> 
> This patch adds a sanity check to mac80211 to catch
> such driver mistakes; in this case we warn and drop
> the skb.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Heh well this is obviously even a stable candidate and it got
merged already :D.

  Luis
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