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Patch "staging: vt6656: check ieee80211_bss_conf bssid not NULL" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: vt6656: check ieee80211_bss_conf bssid not NULL

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     staging-vt6656-check-ieee80211_bss_conf-bssid-not-null.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From d309509f84725f99326cc73d3b00aae096b374ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Malcolm Priestley <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:03:57 +0100
Subject: staging: vt6656: check ieee80211_bss_conf bssid not NULL

From: Malcolm Priestley <[email protected]>

commit d309509f84725f99326cc73d3b00aae096b374ae upstream.

Sometimes bssid can go null on failed association.

---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c +1 -1
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ static void vnt_bss_info_changed(struct
 
 	priv->current_aid = conf->aid;
 
-	if (changed & BSS_CHANGED_BSSID)
+	if (changed & BSS_CHANGED_BSSID && conf->bssid)
 		vnt_mac_set_bssid_addr(priv, (u8 *)conf->bssid);
 
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/staging-vt6655-check-ieee80211_bss_conf-bssid-not-null.patch queue-4.1/staging-vt6656-check-ieee80211_bss_conf-bssid-not-null.patch queue-4.1/staging-vt6655-device_rx_srv-check-sk_buff-is-null.patch