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Re: ath9k doesn't clean up virtual wifis on rmmod, and crashes.

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On 07/03/2010 12:02 AM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 11:56:14AM +0530, Ben Greear wrote:
It seems to me that in 2.6.34, there is no code to clean up
virtual wiphys in ath9k on rmmod.  Also, ath9k mailing list
is returning error about mis-configured DNS server.

This is with un-modified ath9k driver and is repeatable
every time on my system (crash is often different, but
it always crashes very quickly).

[root@atom ~]# echo add=5>  /debug/ath9k/phy1/wiphy
-bash: /debug/ath9k/phy1/wiphy: No such file or directory
[root@atom ~]# echo add=5>  /debug/ath9k/phy0/wiphy
Jul  2 23:22:19 atom kernel: phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control'
[root@atom ~]# Jul  2 23:22:19 atom kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
rmmod ath9k
Jul  2 23:22:24 atom kernel: ath9k 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
Jul  2 23:22:24 atom kernel: ath9k: Driver unloaded
[root@atom ~]# BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, iw/2877
   lock: f8a476c0, .magic: 00000000, .owner:<none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
Pid: 2877, comm: iw Not tainted 2.6.34 #7
Call Trace:
   [<c0730e34>] ? printk+0xf/0x13
   [<c05710d6>] spin_bug+0x7b/0x86
   [<c0440b76>] ? delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x30
   [<c0571171>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x1e/0x125
   [<c042f91e>] ? scheduler_tick+0xd6/0x1c9
   [<c0440b76>] ? delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x30
   [<c0732a6d>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1b/0x20
   [<c0440b59>] __queue_work+0x12/0x2f
   [<c0440b76>] ? delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x30
   [<c0440ba4>] delayed_work_timer_fn+0x2e/0x30

I'm new to hacking on this driver..but would love to test
patches, and if someone wants to suggest a good point in
the code to remove the virtual phys, I'll make the attempt.

Can you please try this patch?

It still crashes for me, and backtraces look similar.

Were you able to reproduce the crash?

Thanks,
Ben


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Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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