On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 23:38 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > I think what may be happening is that alignment is somehow messing > things up. Can you please try the patch below? The patch doesn't help: $ ./iw Usage: ./iw [options] command Options: --debug enable netlink debugging --version show version Commands: list Segmentation fault (core dumped) (gdb) p __start___cmd $1 = 0x403d20 (gdb) p *__start___cmd $2 = {section = 0x0, name = 0x403865 "list", args = 0x0, cmd = NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY, nl_msg_flags = 768, idby = CIB_NONE, handler = 0x401da0 <handle_info>} (gdb) p __start___cmd[0] $3 = {section = 0x0, name = 0x403865 "list", args = 0x0, cmd = NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY, nl_msg_flags = 768, idby = CIB_NONE, handler = 0x401da0 <handle_info>} (gdb) p __start___cmd[1] $4 = {section = 0x0, name = 0x0, args = 0x0, cmd = 4208746, nl_msg_flags = 0, idby = CIB_NONE, handler = 0x1} (gdb) p &__start___cmd[0] $5 = (struct cmd *) 0x403d20 (gdb) p &__start___cmd[1] $6 = (struct cmd *) 0x403d50 $ nm iw | grep __cmd |sort 0000000000403d20 A __start___cmd 0000000000403d20 r __cmd_handle_infoNL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHYCIB_NONE 0000000000403d60 r __cmd_handle_infoNL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHYCIB_PHY 0000000000403da0 r __cmd_handle_nameNL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHYCIB_PHY ... The next command is at 0x403d60, but the code expects it at 0x403d50. gdb confirms it: (gdb) p *(struct cmd *) 0x403d60 $1 = {section = 0x0, name = 0x40386a "info", args = 0x0, cmd = NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY, nl_msg_flags = 0, idby = CIB_PHY, handler = 0x401da0 <handle_info>} (gdb) p *(struct cmd *) 0x403da0 $2 = {section = 0x403878 "set", name = 0x40387c "name", args = 0x403881 "<new name>", cmd = NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY, nl_msg_flags = 0, idby = CIB_PHY, handler = 0x402230 <handle_name>} (gdb) -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- 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