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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 Fri, 2010-02-12 at 08:57 +0100, ext Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:52 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 meant adding it on the commit log, below the Reviewed-by line.
> 
>   Luis

Sorry, I misunderstood. 

I will resend it once again.

-Juuso

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