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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [TIP] BUG kmalloc-4096: Poison overwritten (ath5k_rx_skb_alloc)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:58:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090224135817.GB6019@hash.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40f31dec0902231508l512af5b7w68cfcc0bdf3cfa87@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:08:03AM +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> He does an extra check...
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Given the use of a self-linked tail be very sure that the hw is
> 	 * done with this descriptor; the hw may have done this descriptor
> 	 * once and picked it up again...make sure the hw has moved on.
> 	 */
> 	if ((ands->ds_rxstatus1&AR_Done) == 0 && OS_REG_READ(ah, AR_RXDP) == pa)
> 		return HAL_EINPROGRESS;

Sounds like we definitely need that.  If the hw uses up all the dma buffers
in one go, there's a good chance we can send the skb to mac80211 while
the hardware is still using it.  I guess an easy way to test would be to
set the max rx buffers to 3 or so and watch the fireworks.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-22 11:18 [TIP] BUG kmalloc-4096: Poison overwritten (ath5k_rx_skb_alloc) Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-22 11:18 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-22 12:01 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-22 12:01   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-22 12:20   ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-22 12:20     ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-22 12:47     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-22 12:47       ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-22 14:47     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-22 14:47       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-22 17:02       ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-22 17:10         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-22 19:27           ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-22 19:42             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-22 20:18               ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-22 20:27                 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-22 20:30                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-22 21:56         ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-22 22:21           ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-22 23:20           ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-23 15:35             ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-23 16:03               ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-02-23 16:15                 ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-02-23 16:21                   ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-23 16:27                     ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-02-23 16:30                       ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-23 16:41                         ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-02-23 16:44                           ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-23 16:16                 ` pat-lkml
2009-02-23 16:20                   ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-02-23 22:22               ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-23 22:43                 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-23 23:08                   ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-02-24 13:58                     ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2009-02-24 21:47                       ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-25 14:01                         ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-25 14:01                           ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-26  1:06                           ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-26 20:53                             ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-26 21:05                               ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-26 13:59                           ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-26 17:03                             ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-02 17:34                               ` [ath5k-devel] " Bob Copeland
2009-03-02 17:34                                 ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-03  4:12                               ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-03 20:03                                 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-04 12:07                                   ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-06  9:42                                     ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-07  4:47                                       ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-07  8:04                                         ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-07 13:34                                           ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-08  3:09                                       ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-08  9:28                                         ` Jiri Slaby
2009-03-08 16:10                                           ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-10  0:43                                           ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-10  8:19                                             ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-12  6:10                                             ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-12  6:10                                               ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-13  9:52                                               ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-13 12:28                                                 ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-20 13:14                                                 ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-29 14:24                                                   ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-29 15:14                                                     ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-31  8:30                                                       ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-05-13 21:44                                                         ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-05-13 21:44                                                           ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-05-15  4:09                                                           ` Bob Copeland
2009-05-18 10:05                                                             ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-05-22  9:39                                                               ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-05-22 12:06                                                                 ` Bob Copeland
2009-05-26 21:10                                                                 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-06-28 20:23                                                                   ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-07-14  2:24                                                                     ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-26  1:11                         ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-22 20:17       ` Bob Copeland

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