eap-tls problem segmentation fault

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 15:59 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 22:39 +0530, shantanu choudhary wrote:
> > now i am recieving a segmentation fault i am sending client hello then
> > it stops abruptly.
> [...]
> > RX EAPOL - hexdump(len=1038)
>                          ^^^^
> 
> I ran into this one as well while trying to debug an EAP problem in
> wpa_supplicant as well.  The error lies in common.c in the wpa_supplicant
> sources:
> 
> > static void _wpa_hexdump(int level, const char *title, const u8 *buf,
> >                           size_t len, int show)
> >  {
> >         size_t i;
> >         char out_buf[2048];
> 
> Somehow I guess that an out_buf sized 2048 might not be able to output
> a hexadecimal (and spaced) copy of a 1038 byte buffer.  It turns out that
> this problem isn't in the wpa_supplicant code proper.  It's in a patch
> that Red Hat adds to wpa_supplcant, wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-use-syslog.patch
> that was inserted in 0.5.7-2.  This patch was removed on Jun 4 with the 
> release of /wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-3.fc7.  I'm just sending this note for 
> anyone who found this thread like I did after a segfault but didn't find
> an answer to their question like I did.  So if you run into this problem
> update your wpa_supplicant rpm.

Jouni, any update on non-hacked syslog status of wpa_supplicant?

Dan