From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in ath_rate_get
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:21:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1229516464.5175.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812171325.26310.chunkeey@web.de>
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:25 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> hostapd: wlan1: STA XX:XX:XX:XX:0d IEEE 802.11: authenticated
> kernel: [ 3130.431067] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel: [ 3130.431076] WARNING: at net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c:69 minstrel_rate_init+0xb8/0x320 [mac80211]()
> kernel: [ 3130.431081] Modules linked in: p54usb p54pci p54common [...]
> kernel: [ 3130.431300] Pid: 16961, comm: hostapd2 Tainted: P 2.6.28-rc7-wl #3
> [ 3130.431305] Call Trace:
> [ 3130.431318] [<ffffffff802343c1>] warn_on_slowpath+0x51/0x75
> [ 3130.431329] [<ffffffff803d74b0>] rb_insert_color+0xba/0xe2
> [ 3130.431338] [<ffffffff802480ef>] __remove_hrtimer+0x7c/0x88
> [ 3130.431375] [<ffffffffa00bd30e>] minstrel_rate_init+0xb8/0x320 [mac80211]
> [ 3130.431417] [<ffffffffa00ae713>] ieee80211_add_station+0x145/0x17d [mac80211]
> hostapd: wlan1: STA XX:XX:XX:XX:0d IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1, accounting session 494187DD-00000000)
> kernel: [ 3130.431440] [<ffffffffa00897af>] nl80211_new_station+0x1b3/0x20b [cfg80211]
> kernel: [ 3130.431450] [<ffffffff80595691>] mutex_lock+0xd/0x1e
> kernel: [ 3130.431459] [<ffffffff804f6f86>] nla_parse+0x4b/0xb2
>
> yup, the Warning just happend right between auth and assoc
This, umm, seems totally unrelated since Jouni was fixing something in
ath9k's RC algorithm.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-17 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-17 11:30 [PATCH] ath9k: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in ath_rate_get Jouni Malinen
2008-12-17 11:30 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-17 12:02 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-12-17 12:25 ` Christian Lamparter
2008-12-17 12:21 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-12-17 13:02 ` Christian Lamparter
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