linux-kernel - Re: Null pointer dereference in nl80211_set

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Date:	Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:04:45 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	<udo@...ervisor.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Network Mailing List" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Null pointer dereference in nl80211_set_reg

On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 17:41 +0200, Udo Steinberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running Linux 3.10.7 and have encountered the following NULL pointer
> dereference. So far it has only occurred once, so I cannot reproduce the
> circumstances that cause the problem.
> 
> Please keep me on CC: as I'm not subscribed to LKML.
[...]

Probably fixed by:

commit c319d50bfcf678c2857038276d9fab3c6646f3bf
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 30 22:34:28 2013 +0200

    nl80211: fix another nl80211_fam.attrbuf race

which went into 3.10.8.

Ben.

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