On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Not sure, I just wanted to make sure we fix .32 as well, that's all. 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
