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Date:   Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:02:01 +0200
From:   Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= <pali@kernel.org>
To:     Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Drivers for Qualcomm wifi chips (ath*k) and security issues
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On Monday 23 August 2021 20:26:37 Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi Pali,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 3:58 PM Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 23 August 2021 07:32:11 Ben Greear wrote:
> > > On 8/23/21 7:08 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > Hello Sasha and Greg!
> > > >
> > > > Last week I sent request for backporting ath9k wifi fixes for security
> > > > issue CVE-2020-3702 into stable LTS kernels because Qualcomm/maintainers
> > > > did not it for more months... details are in email:
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20210818084859.vcs4vs3yd6zetmyt@pali/t/#u
> > >
> > > For one thing, almost everyone using these radios is using openwrt or
> > > similar which has its own patch sets.
> >
> > AFAIK, latest stable released openwrt uses ath9k from 4.19 tree and
> > AFAIK did not have above patch.
> 
> And I can see they are already in the queue for next v4.19.y release,
> so should be part of v4.19.205

Yes, I expect it. My point was that these patches were not available in
openwrt's custom patch sets about which Ben talked.