linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-mm1 -- ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left : info

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Message-ID: <9a8748490609271724y5f39c57s889f94986e119e6d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:24:20 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Miles Lane" <miles.lane@...il.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Jouni Malinen" <jkmaline@...hut.fi>,
	"James P. Ketrenos" <ipw2100-admin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm1 -- ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left : info_element->len+2=28 left=9, id=221.

On 27/09/06, Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:
> >
> > [added netdev]
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:04:40 -0700
> > "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > > ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left :
> > > info_element->len+2=28 left=9, id=221.
> > > ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left :
> > > info_element->len+2=28 left=9, id=221.
> > > ieee80211: Info elem: parse failed: info_element->len + 2 > left :
> > > info_element->len+2=28 left=9, id=221.
> > >
> > > >From dmesg output:
> > > ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
> > > ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@...ux.intel.com>
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
> >
> > I suspect that whatever caused this is now in mainline.  Are you able to
> > test Linus's current git tree?
>
> Sorry, I don't have oodles of disk space free to hold all the git
> historical information (iirc, it's huge).
[snip]

You could just grab the latest snapshot (at the time of this writing
that's 2.6.18-git8) from kernel.org - that way you wouldn't get all
the historical git data.

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