On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 20:04 +0300, Arik Nemtsov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 19:57 +0300, Arik Nemtsov wrote: > >> The function building probe-request IEs does not validate the band is > >> supported before dereferencing it. This can result in a panic when > >> all bands are traversed, as done during sched-scan start. > >> > >> Warn when this happens and return an empty probe request. Also fix > >> sched-scan to not waste memory on unsupported bands. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> better? :) > > > > Yeah I'll apply this :-) > > > > I do wonder though why we even bother building probe request IEs for a > > band if no channels from it are listed in the sched scan request. > > It's a bit complicated to know this, because of how the request is > structured (have to traverse all the channels etc). > The memory waste is not so bad anyway I guess. Yeah but we could just iterate all the channels and build the probe request IEs for each channel's band unless we did before? Anyway, it doesn't matter, something for another day maybe :) johannes -- 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
