Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:22:06 +0100
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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:11 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> 	This is exactly what I was pointing out earlier. Well,
> actually, there may be ways of fixing it in the kernel, but that would
> be real ugly, and I don't want to go there.

Yeah, it would be extremely ugly and involve a lot of copying around
when the app actually receives the data.

> 	I've just released wireless_tools.29.pre15.tar.gz. This is
> supposed to include a "band-aid" for that problem. To the best of my
> knowledge, it should catch the problem and not introduce false
> positive. I would be glad if you guys would have a quick look into it,
> because obviously I can't test it.

I looked at the diff between pre14 and pre15 but have to admit that I
don't understand the code change. Unfortunately I can't test this until
the 20th earliest so it'd be good if someone else could test this.

Btw, could you look at the information leak patch I posted? We really
need to get that fix (or another appropriate one) out asap.

johannes

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