Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:35172 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750780AbYE2H03 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 03:26:29 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so1970796fgg.17 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 00:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: (sfid-20080529_092632_945749_357CDE13) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:26:27 +0300 From: "Ron Rindjunsky" To: "Senthil Balasubramanian" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix for NULL pointer dereference in sta_info_get() Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, lrodriguez@atheros.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080528143812.GA5244@senthil-lnx.users.atheros.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20080528143812.GA5244@senthil-lnx.users.atheros.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > The proper way to fix is to change the data type of TID to u8 > instead of u16. However changing all the occurences requires > some prototype changes as well. We should fix this in upcoming > patches. excellent. currently it is u16 from historical reasons more then anything else (once treated bit pos as tid num)