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Re: Kernel Panic in mac80211

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On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 00:16 -0700, Larry Finger wrote:
> I have been having "random" kernel panics where the "Caps Lock" LED is flashing at ~1 Hz. These 
> crashes only occur for the wireless-2.6 tree and have been happening for roughly 3 weeks. After 
> running a memory test to ensure that these panics were not caused by a hardware problem, I enabled 
> netconsole logging and caught the following crash report for my x86_64 system:

> Code: f6 44 02 08 10 74 12 45 85 ed 78 05 44 39 e9 7f 08 89 8f 24
> RIP  [<ffffffff88202940>] :mac80211:rate_control_pid_tx_status+0x426/0x45a
>   RSP <ffff810059b77dd0>
> CR2: ffffffff88246288
> ---[ end trace 638a30c2fdaf8180 ]---
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
> 
> I have not yet figured out which instruction is found at mac80211:rate_control_pid_tx_status+0x426, 
> but I will continue to work on it. I wanted to get this report filed so that the problem can be 
> found before 2.6.25-rcX comes out.

Damn, I've seen that too but blamed it on my own patching. Stefano, any
idea? IIRC some sta struct was NULL in pid_tx_status.

johannes

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