Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jason noticed that with Yocto GCC 4.8.1 ath6kl crashes with this iperf command: > > iperf -c $TARGET_IP -i 5 -t 50 -w 1M > > The crash was: > [...] > ---[ end trace 0c038f0b8e0b67a3 ]--- > Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception > > Jason's analysis: > > > "The GCC 4.8.1 compiler will not do the for-loop till scat_entries, instead, > it only run one round loop. This may be caused by that the GCC 4.8.1 thought > that the scat_list only have one item and then no need to do full iteration, > but this is simply wrong by looking at the assebly code. This will cause the sg > buffer not get set when scat_entries > 1 and thus lead to kernel panic. > > Note: This issue not observed with GCC 4.7.2, only found on the GCC 4.8.1)" > > Fix this by using the normal [0] style for defining unknown number of list > entries following the struct. This also fixes corruption with scat_q_depth, which > was mistankely added to the end of struct and overwritten if there were more > than item in the scat list. > > Reported-by: Jason Liu <r64343@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Jason Liu <r64343@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
