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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix channel switch for chanctx-based drivers

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On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 13:19 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> The new_ctx pointer is set only for non-chanctx
> drivers. This yielded a crash for chanctx-based
> drivers during channel switch finalization:
> 
>   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
>   IP: ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_switch+0x71c/0xb00 [mac80211]
> 
> Use an adequate chanctx pointer to fix this.
> 
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Note: This is based on mac80211-next/master albeit
> it should apply cleanly on wireless-next/master
> and v3.17-rc1.
> 
> I've verified this fix with iwlmvm & 7260.

Cool!  I've also tested this (with P2P client) and it works fine.  You
can add my:

Tested-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>

The reason I haven't seen this before is because I've been using 2
channels support with iwlmvm, so we never get an in-place channel
switch. :( The normal case is to have single channel support...

--
Cheers,
Luca.

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