linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-git19] BUG due to bad argument to ieee80211softmac_assoc

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Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:23:29 -0800
From:	"Ray Lee" <madrabbit@...il.com>
To:	"Michael Bommarito" <michael.bommarito@...il.com>
Cc:	"Mike Galbraith" <efault@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-git19] BUG due to bad argument to ieee80211softmac_assoc_work

On 12/13/06, Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@...il.com> wrote:
> Sorry, realized I might not have been clear as to what I meant!  The
> patch was attached to the bugzilla entry, but I'll attach it here as
> well.  My description of the patch itself was really as complicated as
> it gets too (just two lines, switch (void*)mac to
> &mac->assoc.work.work in
> net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c), just a small bug
> while somebody was rushing through the work/delayed_work changes.

--- net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c	2006-12-13
11:23:03.000000000 -0500
+++ net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c	2006-12-13
11:24:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
 ieee80211softmac_assoc_notify_scan(struct net_device *dev, int
event_type, void *context)
 {
 	struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac = ieee80211_priv(dev);
-	ieee80211softmac_assoc_work((void*)mac);
+	ieee80211softmac_assoc_work(&mac->associnfo.work.work);
 }

 static void
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@

 	switch (event_type) {
 	case IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_AUTHENTICATED:
-		ieee80211softmac_assoc_work((void*)mac);
+	        ieee80211softmac_assoc_work(&mac->associnfo.work.work);
 		break;
 	case IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_AUTH_FAILED:
 	case IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_AUTH_TIMEOUT:

Good catch, though it was already caught. See:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/12/46

...for (basically) the same patch.

But again, good catch :-).
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