Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: wext: allocate space for NULL-termination for 32byte SSIDs

From: Holger Schurig <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:58 +0100

> drivers/net/wireless/libertas$ grep lbs_deb_ * | grep ssid
> |grep '%s' 
> assoc.c:	lbs_deb_join("current SSID '%s', ssid length %u\n",
> assoc.c:	lbs_deb_join("requested ssid '%s', ssid length %u\n",
> assoc.c:	lbs_deb_join("ADHOC_START: SSID '%s', ssid
>               length %u\n", 
> scan.c:		lbs_deb_wext("set_scan, essid '%s'\n",

All those lines are gone once my cfg80211 lands.

Do you know any way to make sparse moan about them?

BTW: the libertas firmware sometimes treat an SSID as a 
zero-terminated string. There are some firmware commands that 
accept just an u8[32] bytes for the SSID, but not an ssid_len, 
e.g. in the CMD_802_11_AD_HOC_START command.

You therefore can't connect to the otherwise legitimate SSID of 
TEST\0\0\0.

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