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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix invalid kfree on sched scan

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 10:46 +0200, Eliad Peller wrote:
>> Commit 30dd3ed ("mac80211: don't hang on to sched_scan_ies")
>> converted sched_scan_ies to a local variable.
>> However, since it wasn't initialized, in a case of
>> unsupported band, sched_scan_ies.ie[] was uninitialized,
>> and freeing it could corrupt the memory.
>>
>> Fix it by simply initializing sched_scan_ies to 0.
>
> Yep, already have that in the tree :-)
>
> commit bca1e29fb54c51856dda6772d488d41b10ed91da
> Author: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Oct 29 14:49:41 2012 +0200
>
>     mac80211: init sched_scan_ies
>
>
oops... sorry :)

Eliad.
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