Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:61568 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754680Ab2BOTOp (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:14:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4F3C0421.20506@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120215_201504_522523_74EA521D) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:14:41 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: Tim Gardner , Chaoming Li , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] rtlwifi: rtl8192se firmware load can overflow target buffer References: <1328833192-10681-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <20120215185525.GE4379@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20120215185525.GE4379@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/15/2012 12:55 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > Is this a fix that should go to 3.3? That code has been in the driver since 3.0 and it should probably be packported. On the other hand, Tim's report is the first one. My suggestion is that it go into 3.4. In addition, I am working on a fix that will completely eliminate all this fixed storage. Larry