[PATCH] staging: brcm80211: added firmware validation

[Roland Vossen]

Hello Greg,

that would be https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21872. In the future I will use a URL when referring to a logged bug. The bug occurs when somebody overwrites the firmware (in /lib/firmware/brcm) with bogus files. My recommendation would be to include this patch also for .37 and previous kernels. 

thanks, Roland.

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From: Greg KH [greg at kroah.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:58 PM
To: Roland Vossen
Cc: gregkh at suse.de; devel at linuxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: added firmware validation

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:38:31PM +0100, Roland Vossen wrote:
> Fix for Bugzilla 21872.

What bugzilla?  kernel.org or some other one?

> New function wl_check_firmwares() checks validity of
> all firmware images loaded from user space.

Should this go into .37 and previous kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h