It was possible to trigger a kernel panic because beacon_timer may not have been deleted in all cases when the kernel module was removed while hostapd was still running. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c 2008-10-30 16:11:33.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c 2008-10-30 16:26:49.000000000 +0200 @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ { struct mac80211_hwsim_data *data = hw->priv; data->started = 0; + del_timer(&data->beacon_timer); printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s:%s\n", wiphy_name(hw->wiphy), __func__); } -- -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- 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