> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Paride Legovini
> > I tried to 'modprobe ath5k debug=0x00000080', but the led_pin and
> > led_polarity files did not appear. So I tried to rmmod ath5k and then to
> > modprobe ath5k debug=0xffffffff. What resulted both of the times I tried
> > it is a kernel panic.
Does this fix the panic?
>From db22838dc34d211d8414577a30f5af69feb7da0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Copeland <m...@bobcopeland.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:21:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ath5k: fix buffer overrun in rate debug code
char bname[5] is too small for the string "X GHz" when the null
terminator is taken into account. Thus, turning on rate debugging
can crash unless we have lucky stack alignment.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <m...@bobcopeland.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
index 9770bb3..4904a07 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ ath5k_debug_dump_bands(struct ath5k_softc *sc)
for (b = 0; b < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; b++) {
struct ieee80211_supported_band *band = &sc->sbands[b];
- char bname[5];
+ char bname[6];
switch (band->band) {
case IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ:
strcpy(bname, "2 GHz");
--
1.6.0.6
--
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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