linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Björn Smedman" <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: memory clobber in rx path, maybe related to ath9k.
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:48:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinMp8dJ3TM=-Mw3pyFiYTYoTmBBqSro3rsrgwXH@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimqX5E33eTPYiei4GcCYocbs8-zceCARG+5t98B@mail.gmail.com>

2010/10/15 Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
>
> 2010/10/15 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>:
> > I tried the patch below, and it didn't seem to help.  Might even
> > have hurt..as it died on divide-by-zero error:
>
> Hmm, looks like the ani code got a zero listen time from the hw...
> That just might mean that the DMA actually hits one of these
> descriptors. :)

Am I the only one worried about this? Leaving a DMA descriptor
pointing at memory which has been passed on to somebody else... To me
that's like pointing a loaded gun at someone (and it seems this
particular gun can go off a little haphazardly).

Luis, given how hard it seems to be to get that locking and skb
shoveling right, are you sure you want to keep pointing that DMA
engine on innocent people's data?

/Björn

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-18 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-05 17:00 memory clobber in rx path, maybe related to ath9k Ben Greear
2010-10-05 17:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-05 17:24   ` Ben Greear
2010-10-05 17:36     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-05 17:38       ` Ben Greear
2010-10-05 17:43         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-05 17:47           ` Ben Greear
2010-10-05 17:55             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-05 18:14               ` Ben Greear
2010-10-05 21:12                 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-07 17:33                 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-07 18:14                   ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-07 18:29                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-07 18:39                       ` Ben Greear
2010-10-07 18:42                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-07 18:45                           ` Ben Greear
2010-10-07 19:14                             ` Ben Greear
2010-10-07 19:17                               ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-07 19:22                           ` Ben Greear
2010-10-07 19:27                             ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-07 21:31                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-07 21:36                                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-07 21:59                                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-11 20:51                                     ` Ben Greear
2010-10-12  1:03                                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-12  3:27                                         ` Ben Greear
2010-10-12  6:10                                           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-12 18:35                                             ` Ben Greear
2010-10-12 18:40                                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-12 18:43                                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-12 19:51                                                   ` Ben Greear
2010-10-13 17:12                                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-13 17:29                                                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-13 17:48                                                     ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 21:25                                                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 21:31                                                         ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 21:32                                                           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 21:39                                                             ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 21:45                                                       ` Johannes Berg
2010-10-14 21:47                                                         ` Ben Greear
2010-10-13  5:31                                               ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-10-13 16:39                                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-13 19:56                                                   ` Björn Smedman
2010-10-13 20:03                                                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 19:15                                                       ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 19:17                                                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 21:52                                                     ` Björn Smedman
2010-10-14 22:05                                                       ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 22:16                                                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 22:29                                                           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 22:35                                                             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 22:44                                                               ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 22:54                                                                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 22:51                                                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 23:19                                                                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 23:30                                                                   ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 23:39                                                                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14 23:48                                                                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-15 16:51                                                                         ` Ben Greear
2010-10-15 18:47                                                                           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-15 19:36                                                                             ` Ben Greear
2010-10-15 21:07                                                                               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-15 23:21                                                                                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-15 23:33                                                                                   ` Ben Greear
2010-10-15 23:38                                                                                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-15 23:41                                                                                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-16  0:07                                                                                         ` Ben Greear
2010-10-15 23:42                                                                                       ` Ben Greear
2010-10-15 23:57                                                                                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-17 19:44                                                                                           ` Ben Greear
2010-10-18 22:46                                                                                             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-15 23:39                                                                                     ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 23:51                                                                       ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 22:47                                                       ` Ben Greear
2010-10-14 23:46                                                         ` Björn Smedman
2010-10-18 13:48                                                           ` Björn Smedman [this message]
2010-10-18 17:24                                                             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-18 22:34                                                               ` Björn Smedman
2010-10-18 22:41                                                                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-14  5:37                                                   ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-10-07 21:52                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-08  0:42                               ` Bruno Randolf
2010-10-08  2:30                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-05 17:22 ` Johannes Berg

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='AANLkTinMp8dJ3TM=-Mw3pyFiYTYoTmBBqSro3rsrgwXH@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=bjorn.smedman@venatech.se \
    --cc=greearb@candelatech.com \
    --cc=johannes@sipsolutions.net \
    --cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mcgrof@gmail.com \
    --cc=vasanth@atheros.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).