Re: zd1211rw (2.6.22 sparc64): unaligned access (do_rx)

[Shaddy Baddah <shaddy_baddah@hotmail.com>]

Hi again,

Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>> This is an unaligned data access in the userland tools.
>> Try to catch it with GDB and give us ths backtrace.
> 
> I will try and do this at some point. Unfortunately, the system isn't 
> readily at hand, and it might take a couple of days before I am able to 
> attend to it.

I've tried to do this as best as I can (I've munged the ethernet address 
for privacy), and have included the output in-line:

# gdb --args iwlist eth2 scanning
GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
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Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "sparc-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /sbin/iwlist eth2 scanning
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
eth2      Scan completed :
           Cell 01 - Address: GG:GG:GG:GG:GG:GG
                     ESSID:"dixieland"
                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                     Mode:Master
                     Channel:11
                     Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)

Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
0xf7fa9eb8 in iw_extract_event_stream () from /lib/libiw.so.29
(gdb) bt
#0  0xf7fa9eb8 in iw_extract_event_stream () from /lib/libiw.so.29
#1  0x00011db0 in ?? ()
#2  0x00011db0 in ?? ()
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb)


Hope that helps.

Regards,
Shaddy