Re: pull-request: mac80211 2021-01-18.2
From: Hans de Goede <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-26 05:06:42
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Hi, On 1/25/21 1:40 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
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I don't have that much sympathy for a staging driver that's clearly doing things differently than it was intended (the documentation states that the function should be called only before wiphy_register(), not during ndo_open). :-)I completely understand and I already was worried that this might be a staging-driver issue, which is why I mentioned this was with a staging driver in the more detailed bug-report email.I guess I missed that, but no worries.quoted
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But OTOH, that fix to the driver is simple and looks correct to me since it only ever has a static regdomain, and the notifier does the work of applying it to the channels as well.So I've given your fix a quick try and it leads to a NULL pointer deref.Ouch. Oh. I see, that driver is *really* stupid, trying to get to the wiphy from the adapter, but going through the wdev instead ... ouch. Wow are these pointers a mess in that driver ... Something like this, perhaps? https://p.sipsolutions.net/4400d9a3b7b800bb.txt
Yes this fixes things, thank you that saves me from having to debug the NULL ptr deref. Do you want to submit this to Greg, or shall I (I've already added it to me local tree as a commit with you as the author) ? If you want me to submit it upstream, may I have / add your S-o-b for this ? Regards, Hans