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Re: Problem with "mac80211: free up 2 bytes in skb->cb"

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On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:48 +1300, Stephen Blackheath [to Rt2400-devel]
wrote:
> Felix & John,
> 
> This patch definitely breaks wifi on the rt73usb.
> 
> The symptom is that all connection negotiation works, rx works, but 
> transmitted packets are garbage and are not received at the remote end. 
>   Tested in AP mode using hostapd and WPA encryption.  Also observed in 
> managed mode with WEP encryption, but in this case, it wasn't 100% 
> confirmed to be your patch.
> 
> The problem goes away completely with this option:
> 
> modprobe rt73usb nohwcrypt=1
> 
> ...which disables hardware encryption.
> 
> I don't know the exact reason, and I perhaps the bug is in rt73usb.

Yeah, the hw_key pointer is used (and obviously NULL) after skb->cb is
memset to 0, that is a bug in that patch, Felix will post a fix.

johannes

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