Default values for some options apparently not initialised

Jouni Malinen j
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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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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