linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: minstrel, fix memory corruption

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2009 12:17:19 -0400
From:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	johannes@...solutions.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: minstrel, fix memory corruption

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:
> minstrel doesn't count max rate count in fact, since it doesn't use
> a loop variable `i' and hence allocs space only for bitrates found in
> the first band.

Nice catch, I don't know how many times I read that and didn't see
it.  Hopefully that has some bearing on this long standing bug:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12490

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