On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 16:13 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Following up on the thread I started about some odd state > wpa_supplicant gets into, I now managed to get the dmesg log of this > happening. > [10551.652480] wlan1: deauthenticating from 00:0b:85:6f:12:ac by local > choice (reason=3) Please everybody take more care to not line-wrap logs. > [10551.676034] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [10551.676057] WARNING: at net/mac80211/scan.c:291 > ieee80211_scan_completed+0x26c/0x280 [mac80211]() > [10551.676061] Hardware name: 7660A14 > [10551.676064] Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_hw mac80211 ath cfg80211 > aes_generic i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit binfmt_misc bridge > stp bnep lp snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec > snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss arc4 snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss > snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq pcmcia snd_timer > snd_seq_device ppdev joydev psmouse yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic snd > parport_pc hid_microsoft video intel_agp thinkpad_acpi soundcore > parport serio_raw usbhid output pcmcia_core pcspkr agpgart nvram > iTCO_wdt led_class btusb snd_page_alloc iTCO_vendor_support ohci1394 > ieee1394 [last unloaded: e1000e] > [10551.676149] Pid: 8068, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G W > 2.6.32-rc5-wl #28 > [10551.676153] Call Trace: > [10551.676162] [<c05a3a03>] ? printk+0x1d/0x22 > [10551.676176] [<fce0916c>] ? ieee80211_scan_completed+0x26c/0x280 [mac80211] > [10551.676184] [<c0146121>] warn_slowpath_common+0x71/0xd0 > [10551.676198] [<fce0916c>] ? ieee80211_scan_completed+0x26c/0x280 [mac80211] > [10551.676204] [<c014619a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 > [10551.676218] [<fce0916c>] ieee80211_scan_completed+0x26c/0x280 [mac80211] > [10551.676231] [<fce091c9>] ieee80211_scan_cancel+0x49/0x80 [mac80211] > [10551.676247] [<fce1287a>] ieee80211_stop+0x59a/0x5b0 [mac80211] > [10551.676254] [<c04e513e>] ? dev_deactivate+0x17e/0x1a0 > [10551.676260] [<c04d34cb>] dev_close+0x6b/0xc0 This patch should help. johannes --- net/mac80211/scan.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/scan.c 2009-10-30 08:11:52.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/scan.c 2009-10-30 08:14:42.000000000 +0100 @@ -288,10 +288,14 @@ void ieee80211_scan_completed(struct iee mutex_lock(&local->scan_mtx); - if (WARN_ON(!local->scanning)) { - mutex_unlock(&local->scan_mtx); - return; - } + /* + * It's ok to abort a not-yet-running scan (that + * we have one at all will be verified by checking + * local->scan_req next), but not to complete it + * successfully. + */ + if (WARN_ON(!local->scanning && !aborted)) + aborted = true; if (WARN_ON(!local->scan_req)) { mutex_unlock(&local->scan_mtx); -- 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