On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:07 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> All went well until I had a Windows Vista client connect to the
> network. As soon as I launched a browser, the kernel on the AP crashed.
Rather strange.
> The kernel in question is 2.6.31-rc7-Linus-00012-g3edf2fb from the
> mainline tree. I do not know the reported reason for the panic, as
> that scrolls off the screen. The traceback shows the error to be in
> __ieee80211_tx in this statement: ret = drv_tx(local, skb), which
> makes the problem be here:
>
> static inline int drv_tx(struct ieee80211_local *local, struct sk_buff
> *skb)
> {
> return local->ops->tx(&local->hw, skb);
> }
>
> Are there any suggest changes that would let me debug this problem
> without crashing the kernel?
Are you sure it's right there, and not maybe in p54's tx routine which
gets called from here? I mean, the only reason I see for this particular
line of code to go wrong would be corruption of the "local",
"local->ops", or "local->ops->tx" pointers, which seems rather unlikely.
johannes
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