As Pavel puts userspace can be stupid and should not cause kernel crashes. In this case Pavel was able to find a crash here but unable to reproduce. Either way lets deal with this. This should fix: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at /home/proski/src/linux-2.6/net/wireless/reg.c:2132! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] PowerMac Modules linked in: ath5k ath [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] NIP: c02f3eac LR: c02f3d08 CTR: 00000000 REGS: ef107aa0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.30-rc8-wl) MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 88002442 XER: 20000000 TASK = ef84acb0[834] 'crda' THREAD: ef106000 GPR00: ef953840 ef107b50 ef84acb0 ef1380bc 00000006 c035a5c8 ef107b90 c035a5c8 GPR08: 00080005 efb68980 c0445628 ef130004 28002422 10019ce0 10012d3c 00000001 GPR16: 1070b2ac 00000005 48023558 1070b380 4802304c 00000000 ef107ddc c035a5c8 GPR24: ef107b78 c0443350 ef8bcb00 00000005 ef138080 c04a6a70 c04a0000 ef8bcb00 NIP [c02f3eac] set_regdom+0x4c4/0x4ec LR [c02f3d08] set_regdom+0x320/0x4ec Call Trace: [ef107b50] [c02f3d08] set_regdom+0x320/0x4ec (unreliable) [ef107b70] [c02f9d10] nl80211_set_reg+0x140/0x2d0 [ef107bc0] [c02aa2b8] genl_rcv_msg+0x204/0x228 [ef107c10] [c02a97cc] netlink_rcv_skb+0xe8/0x10c [ef107c30] [c02aa094] genl_rcv+0x3c/0x5c [ef107c40] [c02a9050] netlink_unicast+0x308/0x36c [ef107c80] [c02a92bc] netlink_sendmsg+0x208/0x2f0 [ef107cd0] [c0282048] sock_sendmsg+0xac/0xe4 [ef107db0] [c02822b4] sys_sendmsg+0x234/0x2d8 [ef107f00] [c0283a88] sys_socketcall+0x108/0x258 [ef107f40] [c0012790] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 --- Exception: c01 at 0xfa6b3b4 LR = 0xfb4b5d4 Instruction dump: 80690000 4bffc1e9 2c030000 4182003c 88a30039 88830038 3c60c03c 38632a18 4802c20d 4bfffed0 7f83e378 8403003c <0f000000> 7fe4fb78 4bffe6d1 7c7b1b79 ---[ end trace c8eebdfbe3eb31de ]--- Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/reg.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c index ea4c299..5e14371 100644 --- a/net/wireless/reg.c +++ b/net/wireless/reg.c @@ -2129,7 +2129,12 @@ static int __set_regdom(const struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd) * driver wanted to the wiphy to deal with conflicts */ - BUG_ON(request_wiphy->regd); + /* + * Userspace could have sent two replies with only + * one kernel request. + */ + if (request_wiphy->regd) + return -EALREADY; r = reg_copy_regd(&request_wiphy->regd, rd); if (r) -- 1.6.2.2.446.gfbdc0 -- 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
