On 20 July 2015 at 22:14, Marc Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been looking at an issue with WPA/WPA2 and joining a specific Access 
> Point SSID that also has a hidden SSID available.  This was with 3.14.47 
> kernel but it is also present in all 3.x kernels.
> When the AP's are being scanned it there is a warning generated stating that 
> the bssid is empty yet when you inspect what is actually happening in the 
> code it is because there is an SSID string but its length is 0 so it fails to 
> return when it should.
>
> in net/wireless/scan.c there is a function is_bss that should return the 
> cfg80211_bss struct when it finds the matching details.  When the bssid is 
> found but the SSID is empty (valid string "" but with length of 0) it passes 
> through when it should return as the bssid matches.
>
> Patch is as follows:

Please follow
Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Documentation/CodingStyle
(and resend your patch)

You need a clear commit messages, description and use kernel's coding style.
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