[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "staging: wlan-ng: Fix clamping of returned SSID length" has been added to staging queue
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Wed Jan 30 21:57:32 UTC 2013
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
staging: wlan-ng: Fix clamping of returned SSID length
to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Herton
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>From 9e60d532838865af52472a598f60fa79e1feaceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tormod Volden <debian.tormod at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 22:23:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: Fix clamping of returned SSID length
commit 811a37effdb11e54e1ff1ddaa944286c88f58487 upstream.
Commit 2e254212 broke listing of available network names, since it
clamped the length of the returned SSID to WLAN_BSSID_LEN (6) instead of
WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN (32).
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52501
Signed-off-by: Tormod Volden <debian.tormod at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c
index 4efa9bc..89bfd85 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ int prism2mgmt_scan_results(wlandevice_t *wlandev, void *msgp)
/* SSID */
req->ssid.status = P80211ENUM_msgitem_status_data_ok;
req->ssid.data.len = le16_to_cpu(item->ssid.len);
- req->ssid.data.len = min_t(u16, req->ssid.data.len, WLAN_BSSID_LEN);
+ req->ssid.data.len = min_t(u16, req->ssid.data.len, WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN);
memcpy(req->ssid.data.data, item->ssid.data, req->ssid.data.len);
/* supported rates */
--
1.7.9.5
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