From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:40012 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752150Ab2BRNJp (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:09:45 -0500 Subject: Re: iwlwifi havoc on some APs (rekeying?) From: Johannes Berg To: Wolfgang Breyha Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <4EE2202A.4080303@gmx.net> (sfid-20111209_155026_272581_C336F412) References: <4EE2202A.4080303@gmx.net> (sfid-20111209_155026_272581_C336F412) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:09:42 +0100 Message-ID: <1329570582.3443.5.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120218_140949_779575_5BB0DB68) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 15:50 +0100, Wolfgang Breyha wrote: > If I connect to this one and start eg. videostreaming it takes only a few > minutes and my machine gets completly unstable. Various applications crash, > sounds starts crackling, video gets artefacts. Also doing large downloads > helps to kill various components. gnome-shell, firefox, ... looks like > iwlwifi writes random memory. Just to give this some public closure as we've been discussing this in private for a while now -- the problem was caused by the AES-NI FPU state corruption problem that's been discussed elsewhere for a while. johannes