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From: Alexander Barinov <alex.barinov@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: libertas causing kernel lockups
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:59:33 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090705125933.5a9f7ce4@dream> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246704102.16770.71.camel@johannes.local>

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:41:42 +0200
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 13:03 +0400, Alexander Barinov wrote:
> > The initial symptom of the bug was system lockup when executing
> > 'ifdown eth0' with 'BUG: scheduling while atomic'. Trying to
> > understand the cause of the bug and find a workaround I was able to
> > find an easier way to reproduce it. By executing
> > 'cat /proc/net/wireless' I get the same bug:
> This should have been fixed by
> 87057825824973f29cf2f37cff1e549170b2d7e6. For some reason everybody
> seems to have assumed that get_wireless_stats can sleep, which before
> that commit it could _not_.

The patch you have mentioned was not directly applicable to 2.6.30
kernel so I pulled wireless-testing git tree and compiled it. This
deteriorated the situation further - now after executing
'cat /proc/net/wireless' I get kernel lockup without any further
messages.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-05  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-04  9:03 BUG REPORT: libertas causing kernel lockups Alexander Barinov
2009-07-04 10:41 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-05  8:59   ` Alexander Barinov [this message]
2009-07-06 17:29     ` Dan Williams
2009-07-06 19:23       ` Alexander Barinov
2009-07-07  6:59 ` Holger Schurig
2009-07-07  8:56   ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-08  7:42     ` Holger Schurig
2009-07-07 20:37   ` Alexander Barinov
2009-07-08  7:32     ` Holger Schurig

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