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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when using WEP

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"John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "mac80211: move control.hw_key assignment" changed an if-else into two
> separate if statments, but the if-else is needed to prevent
> dereferencing a null info->control.hw_key.  This fixes avoids a lock-up
> during association on my machine when using WEP.

Thanks. I was also suffering from this and your patch fixed it.

> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxx>

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