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Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: fix handling of null-rate control in rate_control_get_rate

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Juuso Oikarinen
<juuso.oikarinen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For hardware with IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL the rate controller is not
> initialized. However, calling functions such as ieee80211_beacon_get result
> in the rate_control_get_rate function getting called, which is accessing
> (in this case uninitialized) rate control structures unconditionally.
>
> Fix by exiting the function before setting the rates for HW with
> IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL set. The initialization of the ieee80211_tx_info
> struct is intentionally still executed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxxxxx>

I think this has been a bug for a while so can you resend with Cc:
stable@xxxxxxxxxx

  Luis
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