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Re: [patch] iwlwifi: range checking issue

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On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 19:01 -0700, Zhu, Yi wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 19:55 +0800, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > IWL_RATE_COUNT is 13 and IWL_RATE_COUNT_LEGACY is 12.
> > 
> > IWL_RATE_COUNT_LEGACY is the right one here because iwl3945_rates
> > doesn't support 60M and also that's how "rates" is defined in
> > iwlcore_init_geos() from drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c.
> > 
> >         rates = kzalloc((sizeof(struct ieee80211_rate) * IWL_RATE_COUNT_LEGACY),
> >                         GFP_KERNEL);
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>

Great catch. Since this is a fix for a buffer overflow ... could you
please pass it on to stable also?

Thank you

Reinette

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