On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:18:29PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > I am not 100% sure because I haven't checked the code, but couldn't it be > the case that we send random bits inside reserved at the moment? At least > I cannot remember the part of the code that initialized reserver to any > specific value. That would make the change incompatible with older > batman-adv version.
Damn, that's true! It is not initialised anywhere.... What if I append a new field to the roam_adv_packet struct? Old version will ignore it and there is no size check to drop packets longer than expected. Cheers, -- Antonio Quartulli ..each of us alone is worth nothing.. Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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