On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 06:35 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > 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? I'm pretty sure -- have we got any changes to this code that are not in .32? johannes
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