On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:41:50AM +0300, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 02:09,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the .39-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <[email protected]>.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> >
> > From a66b98db570a638afd909459e1e6bfa272344bd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Arik Nemtsov <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:24 +0300
> > Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: fix rx->key NULL dereference during mic failure
> >
> 
> I'm afraid the above patch doesn't really mean much without first
> applying 816c04fe7ef01dd9649f5ccfe796474db8708be5. But that patch
> introduced the null-deref in the first place (at least when using a
> wl12xx card).
> Without these two patches applied we won't get a panic with a wl12xx
> card, but MIC failures will not be correctly propagated up. As such
> I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

Ok, thanks for letting me know, I suggest not worrying about it.

greg k-h

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