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Re: NULL pointer deref at wext ioctl (Re: [PATCH] compat-2.6: adding ethtool.h to compat-2.6.31.h)

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On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:51 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Ok, that's odd. Is it possible that somehow cfg80211 is picking up an
> #ifdef'ed copy of "struct iw_handler_def", and thus the struct it is
> defining is simply too small?

That is apparently what is happening since compat-wireless ships
iw_handler.h. This is wrong, as wext functionality is built into the
kernel image so you can't use a newer header file with it.

johannes

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