On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 15:05 +0200, Juuso Oikarinen wrote: > If authentication has already been performed when the WLAN interface is > stopped, (sometimes) the ieee80211_work_purge would corrupt some > ieee80211_work-structures. The outcome is this (cleaned up): > > [ 2252.398681] WARNING: at net/mac80211/work.c:995 ieee80211_work_purge > [ 2252.466430] Backtrace: > [ 2252.529266] (ieee80211_work_purge+0x0/0xcc [mac80211]) > [ 2252.546875] (ieee80211_stop+0x0/0x4c0 [mac80211]) > > Additionally, one would get this, going on regarless of the WLAN interface > state, going on forever: > > [ 2252.859985] wlan0: direct probe to 00:90:4c:60:04:00 (try -996717525) > [ 2253.055419] wlan0: direct probe to 00:90:4c:60:04:00 (try -996717524) > [ 2253.250610] wlan0: direct probe to 00:90:4c:60:04:00 (try -996717523) > [ 2253.446014] wlan0: direct probe to 00:90:4c:60:04:00 (try -996717522) > [ 2253.641357] wlan0: direct probe to 00:90:4c:60:04:00 (try -996717521) > > Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/mac80211/work.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/mac80211/work.c b/net/mac80211/work.c > index 7e708d5..1e1ea30 100644 > --- a/net/mac80211/work.c > +++ b/net/mac80211/work.c > @@ -869,6 +869,7 @@ static void ieee80211_work_work(struct work_struct *work) > break; > case IEEE80211_WORK_ABORT: > rma = WORK_ACT_TIMEOUT; > + break; > case IEEE80211_WORK_DIRECT_PROBE: > rma = ieee80211_direct_probe(wk); > break; Wow, thanks. I had been looking for this bug but never found it and then it stopped happening for me ... Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> johannes -- 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
