On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:52:45 PDT, Jean Tourrilhes said: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:20:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:01:54 -0400 > > > > > > % grep ioctl /tmp/foo2 | sort -u | more > > > ioctl(13, SIOCGIWESSID, 0xbfbcdb9c) = 0 > > > ioctl(13, SIOCGIWRANGE, 0xbfbcdbdc) = 0 > > > ioctl(13, SIOCGIWRATE, 0xbfbcdbbc) = 0 > > > > Yes. The main thing which those WE-21 patches do is to shorten the size of > > various buffers which are used in wireless ioctls. > > Ok, I've found it. Actually, I feel ashamed, as it is a fairly > classical buffer overflow, we put one extra char in a buffer. Now, I > don't understand why it did not blow up on my box ;-) > New patch. I think it is right, but I would not mind Pavel to > have a look at it. On my box it does not make thing worse. > Valdis : would you mind trying if this patch fix the problem > you are seeing with WE-21 ? If it fixes it, I'll send it to John... Been up and running with we-21 configured in, and gkrellm doing the monitoring that gave it indigestion. It was dying in 1-2 minutes, now been up for 30 mins with no issues....
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