mac80211's ieee80211_register_hw() is often called within the probe path so it cannot assume the device's driver structure has been attached yet so to create a workqueue instead of using driver->name use the wiphy's phy%d name. This should fix sporadic oopses found when we race to beat the driver pointer setting. Not even sure how this was working properly. http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=ieee80211_register_hw Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Tested with iwlagn. If you are running into this oops please test. net/mac80211/main.c | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index d631dc9..cec9b6d 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -722,7 +722,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_alloc_hw); int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) { struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw); - const char *name; int result; enum ieee80211_band band; struct net_device *mdev; @@ -787,8 +786,8 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) mdev->header_ops = &ieee80211_header_ops; mdev->set_multicast_list = ieee80211_master_set_multicast_list; - name = wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)->driver->name; - local->hw.workqueue = create_freezeable_workqueue(name); + local->hw.workqueue = + create_freezeable_workqueue(wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy)); if (!local->hw.workqueue) { result = -ENOMEM; goto fail_workqueue; -- 1.5.6.3 -- 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
