It looks like mac80211 can request the driver to start beaconing with a beacon interval of zero in some cases (at least for mesh point). This does not sound correct and something may need to be fixed in mac80211. However, taken into account the unpleasantness of getting stuck in an infinite busy loop with rtnl_lock held, let's add a quick workaround in the driver to avoid the worst symptom while someone more familiar with the mesh implementation can figure out what should be done with mac80211 as far as beacon interval configuration is concerned. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c 2009-05-28 19:13:54.000000000 +0300 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c 2009-05-28 19:14:58.000000000 +0300 @@ -673,6 +673,14 @@ static void ath_beacon_config_adhoc(stru intval = conf->beacon_interval & ATH9K_BEACON_PERIOD; + /* + * It looks like mac80211 may end up using beacon interval of zero in + * some cases (at least for mesh point). Avoid getting into an + * infinite loop by using a bit safer value instead.. + */ + if (intval == 0) + intval = 100; + /* Pull nexttbtt forward to reflect the current TSF */ nexttbtt = TSF_TO_TU(sc->beacon.bc_tstamp >> 32, sc->beacon.bc_tstamp); -- 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
