From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:52467 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751137AbYJHH6p (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:58:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Infinite loop in sta_info_debugfs_add_work(). From: Johannes Berg To: Robin Holt Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby , Jiri Benc In-Reply-To: <20081007225245.GN8534@sgi.com> References: <20081004103144.GI8534@sgi.com> <1223165956.24551.76.camel@johannes.berg> <20081005023143.GJ8534@sgi.com> <1223195921.24551.79.camel@johannes.berg> <20081006064509.GK8534@sgi.com> <1223283470.24551.86.camel@johannes.berg> <20081006133045.GM8534@sgi.com> <1223330976.3778.47.camel@johannes.berg> <20081007225245.GN8534@sgi.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-sZt8seEWyRSo2Kue2h/8" Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:58:42 +0200 Message-Id: <1223452722.3618.16.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20081008_095848_965716_C4E5EBE8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-sZt8seEWyRSo2Kue2h/8 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:52 -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > On a seperate note, I got a panic with your earlier patch applied at: > IP: [] :mac80211:netdev_notify+0x5f/0x90 >=20 > Not sure if that is just exposed by the hangs being out of the way. I > hand wrote that part. Nothing else got captured in the logs :( I think I've heard about such a thing before (RH BZ or something) but I have not seen any plausible explanation for it yet since that function checks pretty much everything that could go wrong. If you can get more information I'd appreciate it. I think the previous conclusion was that it might just have been fluke or a miscompilation. johannes --=-sZt8seEWyRSo2Kue2h/8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJI7GguAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYnAAP/2c3FmciiPw8NxlB54pRSRmU DOklVtll+7V0X3quJSMPLOqIeoHL0zkTlFoX5wzPy56ffbhrHSdbrqe2MV8SOe/t MZHKKl3h38MoI9CLF1SMCSWlk1Ibs3vEZCe3CE75KjJwmRDSJ53fsimPKtvTa/Ot yyqdSDptcgauOa2KxXOFSH6I56XJ3f2t1d0DEOdKKSWpKuP1YGg8LSVvinzeI3Nk sNxvtNudktakg0c1Y+XEV/ebsu4nJlg7Rj/XaSogCV0LPqziSL0D/pfx8mwJrAJk O+lfgcomSUdIr7ybqNYl86zfws4gkoK4IROP+m899+aTSYK72hm6aSEWa2g6fryV OYCuEhww+esuXlsWuXlnV3lNRJfjsDlW0mD/0UKvRrP6r41RHnYtSoZjYk6Y4vF9 qgqcvYTcWvmGjFw+wRXbzOoArLOORS7F3TflYXpDoSAlh1NG8mFLGB2heY+h1U2D oErifjJLxgAUvs6ChZAqxbCqgQf8n2Q5ggVInX2WR1GFsxu8lZzqVvHURy9r1wyr aIfkVU39kDDiESsHvpAp/svBSR3G96RSnfNLYigD0jEIrggo7GGFmGZvNt+lzeG6 VUkCEunFXQN4jhmLzo9F/h59hx21S8zWyF5hF2yK9Vf97ZJmdUyY1LvtnM5gydz9 ON+gsKCoin/8eI4Uzt/4 =IDxl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-sZt8seEWyRSo2Kue2h/8--