Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix the kernel panic on ath_tx_aggr_wakeup on mesh

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 16:26 +0800, Chun-Yeow Yeoh wrote:
> The is to fix the kernel panic happens if user space inserts the mesh
> STA and not proceed with the SAE and AMPE, and later the same mesh STA
> is detected again. The sta_state of the mesh STA remains at
> IEEE80211_STA_NONE and if the ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup
> is called and subsequently the ath_tx_aggr_wakeup, the kernel panic due
> to ath_tx_node_init is not called before to initialize the require data
> structures.

I'd like to have a less ath9k-centric description, and particularly
subject, please.

> Thomas Perdersen

I think you misspelled that :)

> also mentioned that this patch has fixed the
> bad sta magic warning in mac80211_hwsim_set_tim() when applied to
> mac80211-next/master

"The bad sta magic warning"? That sounds like everyone should know about
that, but I don't think I do, or maybe it just slipped my mind?

johannes