Default values for some options apparently not initialised
Jouni Malinen
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Fri Jul 30 11:24:38 PDT 2010
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:50:31PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote:
> A casual glance shows that wpa_strict_rekey and wpa_ptk_rekey members of
> `struct hostapd_bss_config' don't get initialised (see
> hostapd_config_defaults_bss()); there may well be others. I guess that
> the memory coming back from malloc is zeroed on most platforms,
> defaulting these two options to off, but relying on this seems dangerous
> at best. This affects 0.7.2.
struct hostapd_bss_config is allocated with os_zalloc() which fills the
memory with 0x00. As such, these variables are initialized.
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