On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I believe the problem comes from the assumption from cfg80211 that
>> previous deauthentications would have gone through before we run
>> __cfg80211_disconnected() and are using wext or nl80211
>> connec/disconnectt. Under certain conditions (clearly not known yet)
>> this is not true and we'll end up asking mac80211 to deauthenticate us
>> from a BSS we already deauthenticated to end end up with an -ENOLINK
>> on our mac80211 cfg80211 deauth ops. It seems this race was expected
>> all along on mac80211 ieee80211_mgd_deauth():
>>
>> /*
>> * cfg80211 should catch this ... but it's racy since
>> * we can receive a deauth frame, process it, hand it
>> * to cfg80211 while that's in a locked section already
>> * trying to tell us that the user wants to disconnect.
>> */
>> if (!bssid) {
>> mutex_unlock(&ifmgd->mtx);
>> return -ENOLINK;
>> }
>>
>> So it seems we do need to address that race but I'm not yet sure how.
>>
>> Here is a warning from the latest wireless-testing. Unfortunately I
>> cannot reproduce in a systematic way, I've tried even different boot
>> configuration (mem=300M) and CPU pegged at 800 MHz thinking the race
>> occurs when mac80211 takes its sweet time deathenticating but that
>> wasn't the case.
>
> OK so I just got this again today with a cardbus card. The curious
> thing to see was that it happened when I rmmod'd ath9k right after
> these messages:
>
> [ 234.481226] ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0x00000024
> AR_DIAG_SW=0x40000020
> [ 234.928823] ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0x00000024
> AR_DIAG_SW=0x40000020
> [ 237.064792] ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0x00000024
> AR_DIAG_SW=0x40000020
> [ 310.676842] ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0x00000024
> AR_DIAG_SW=0x40000020
Mind you I am not sure if its the Cardbus card, it could be busted,
I've seen some strange issues with it before.
Luis
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