On 2007.05.26 14:42:30 +0200, Maximilian Engelhardt wrote: > Hello, > > when using the prism54 driver including in the 2.6.22-rc3 kernel I get this > Oops when putting the card into monitor mode: > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 000001d8 > printing eip: > c0500608 > *pde = 00000000 > Oops: 0002 [#1] > PREEMPT > Modules linked in: fuse > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0060:[<c0500608>] Not tainted VLI > EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.22-rc3 #2) > EIP is at netif_rx+0x48/0xc0 > eax: 00000000 ebx: c18fdbc0 ecx: c087991c edx: c0879910 > esi: 00000246 edi: f7c68010 ebp: f7fe0ba0 esp: c07bbef0 > ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 0000 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 > Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c07ba000 task=c075a280 task.ti=c07ba000) > Stack: f7ec0000 00000000 c03d2b8f c07bbf24 00000082 f7c68024 f7fe0800 c18fdbc0 > 00000070 00000046 00000286 00000286 00000008 00000007 0032dcd5 00000000 > f7fe0ba0 00000002 f7fe0800 c03d913d 00000000 00000000 f7f4d2c0 00000000 > Call Trace: > [<c03d2b8f>] islpci_eth_receive+0x12f/0x590 > [<c03d913d>] islpci_interrupt+0x1cd/0x280 > [<c0144e15>] handle_IRQ_event+0x25/0x50 > [<c014669c>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x5c/0xe0 > [<c010674a>] do_IRQ+0x4a/0x80 > [<c010498f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 > [<c0102b3a>] default_idle+0x2a/0x40 > [<c01023e3>] cpu_idle+0x43/0x80 > [<c07bcb2a>] start_kernel+0x21a/0x260 > [<c07bc450>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x260 > ======================= > Code: c7 43 0c 00 00 00 00 c7 43 10 00 00 00 00 9c 5e fa ff 05 bc 9c 87 c0 a1 > 0c 99 87 c0 3b 05 c0 4a 7b c0 77 30 85 c0 74 43 8b 43 14 <ff> 80 d8 01 00 00 > a1 08 99 87 c0 ff 05 0c 99 87 c0 c7 03 04 99 > EIP: [<c0500608>] netif_rx+0x48/0xc0 SS:ESP 0068:c07bbef0 > Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt > > After this the system is frozen. Using kernel 2.6.21 everything works fine, I > can capture packets in monitor mode and do not get any Oops. That's probably due to commit 4c13eb6657fe9ef7b4dc8f1a405c902e9e5234e0, which moved the setting of skb->dev into eth_type_trans, which is never called when the card is in monitor mode. Could you try this patch? Manually set the device of a skb for prism54 cards that are in monitor mode as we never call eth_type_trans in that case. Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@xxxxxx> --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c index dd070cc..f49eb06 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c @@ -378,9 +378,10 @@ islpci_eth_receive(islpci_private *priv) display_buffer((char *) skb->data, skb->len); #endif /* take care of monitor mode and spy monitoring. */ - if (unlikely(priv->iw_mode == IW_MODE_MONITOR)) + if (unlikely(priv->iw_mode == IW_MODE_MONITOR)) { + skb->dev = ndev; discard = islpci_monitor_rx(priv, &skb); - else { + } else { if (unlikely(skb->data[2 * ETH_ALEN] == 0)) { /* The packet has a rx_annex. Read it for spy monitoring, Then * remove it, while keeping the 2 leading MAC addr. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html