Re: [Trac #278] Bad firmware causes WeirdShit® to happen.

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#278: Bad firmware causes WeirdShit® to happen.
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 Reporter:  dwmw2   |        Owner:  marcelo
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal  |    Milestone:  BTest-1
Component:  distro  |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment (by dcbw):

 Two things of note;

 1) The driver does synchronous association on SIOCSIWESSID, which is
 completely wrong.  I was going to move that to work queues this week but
 got bogged down in the firmware/flashing suckage.  I still hope to do that
 next week.  No other driver that I've seen packs blocking
 association/authentication into the SIWESSID call.

 2) There is some minimal firmware file verification in the driver on
 flash, but not, it appears, when uploading random firmware to the card.
 So the normal paths don't even care if the firmware validates or not, it
 just tries to dump it to the card.  The card is supposed to check the CRC
 of the uploaded blocks but maybe something dumb is happening here.  We
 _definitely_ should modify the driver to reject malformed firmware data.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/278#comment:7>
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