Re: Null pointer dereference in nl80211_set_reg

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Thu Aug 22 2013 - 12:04:55 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
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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