On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > commit 211a4d12abf86fe0df4cd68fc6327cbb58f56f81 > Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Oct 20 15:08:53 2009 +0900 > > cfg80211: sme: deauthenticate on assoc failure > > introduced a potential NULL pointer dereference that > some people have been hitting for some reason -- the > params.bssid pointer is not guaranteed to be non-NULL > for what seems to be a race between various ways of > reaching the same thing. > > While I'm trying to analyse the problem more let's > first fix the crash. I think the real fix may be to > avoid doing _anything_ if it ended up being NULL, but > right now I'm not sure yet. > > I think > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14342 > might also be this issue. > > Reported-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Do we know if this will also affect 2.6.32? Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
