Re: Regression: 2.6.30-rc5 and rt2x00 / rt2500pci

From: John W. Linville
Date: Fri May 15 2009 - 11:00:21 EST


On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:40:44PM +0100, Ken Lewis wrote:
> I've been looking for a bug in Linux-Next that makes my rt2500pci
> wireless card unusable. When testing 2.6.30-rc5, I saw the following
> bug while trying to associate with a WPA-PSK encrypted access point.
> It's a regression over 2.6.30-rc4 and I'm trying to git-bisect my way
> to the source of the problem. I think that a problem in the same area
> is stopping my card from associating when using a kernel from
> linux-next also.

Please apply this patch:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/0002-mac80211-avoid-NULL-ptr-deref-when-finding-max_rate.patch

A pull request was sent to Dave M. a couple of days ago. I imagine
that it will make its way to Linus shortly.

John
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