[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] PS3: gelic: ignore scan info from zero SSID beacons

[Masakazu Mokuno]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:10:24 -0400
"John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:50:37PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:18 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 13:15 +0900, Masakazu Mokuno wrote:
> > > > Some implementations of the hidden SSID APs emit beacons which have the zero
> > > > length SSID information element instead of SSID padded by null (\0) characters.
> > > > If the firmware of the PS3 wireless hardware meets these beacons, it abandons parsing
> > > > IEs. Thus guest OSes get the invalid scan information for the AP.
> > > > 
> > > > To work around this, ignore these scan informations from the list.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure this is a good idea. Is there any way to get at decent
> > > information from those beacons?
> > 
> > Yeah, there are quite a few of these out there.  Ideally the firmware
> > wouldn't puke on it...
> 
> Is a firmware update a possibility?  We've had these discussions
> before.  I doubt Sony is any more excited about a firmware spin than
> Intel has been.

The fix is already scheduled and is under testing. The future update of
the system software for PS3 should have the fix.

> Does this problem apply to probe responses as well?  (Do probe
> responses from hidden SSID APs still exclude the SSID?  I would
> guess not.)

There has been a problem in parsing IEs, so if the received probe
responses include zero length IEs, they also suffer this bug.

> As long as you can still associate w/ hidden SSID APs, I don't see
> a big problem.  Even if you can't, no information for those APs is
> probably better than bad information, no?

I was anxious that the userland apps or the users may get confused.  Any
other thing harmful is not found.
OK, I withdraw this patch.

Thanks for the reviews.

-- 
Masakazu MOKUNO