Search Linux Wireless

Re: ath5k: invalid hw_rix with 64 stations.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 12/01/2010 04:49 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
We were testing with 64 virtual stations running WPA, with
a single instance of supplicant controlling all interfaces and
the scan-sharing enabled. It was running clean w/out encryption
(and w/out supplicant).

We see a large number of these types of warnings. We had a proprietary
module loaded, but it was not in active use. We're going to reproduce
without it, but in the meantime, here is a representative trace:

Here's another one from a non-tainted kernel.  Seems this is trivial
to reproduce.

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/greearb/git/linux.wireless-testing-ct/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c:620 ath5k_hw_to_driver_rix+0x5b/0x5f [ath5k]()
Hardware name:
invalid hw_rix: 1b
Modules linked in: 8021q garp stp llc fuse michael_mic macvlan pktgen w83627hf hwmon_vid hwmon nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc ipv6 dm_multipath uinput arc4 ecb ath5k ath mac80211 cfg80211 e1000e i2c_i801 e100 i2c_core output serio_raw pcspkr mii iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ata_generic pata_acpi [last unloaded: ipt_addrtype]
Pid: 1225, comm: rsyslogd Tainted: G        W   2.6.37-rc4-wl+ #9
Call Trace:
 [<8043144d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x8c
 [<f8663994>] ? ath5k_hw_to_driver_rix+0x5b/0x5f [ath5k]
 [<f8663994>] ? ath5k_hw_to_driver_rix+0x5b/0x5f [ath5k]
 [<804314de>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2e/0x30
 [<f8663994>] ath5k_hw_to_driver_rix+0x5b/0x5f [ath5k]
 [<f8663ba5>] ath5k_tasklet_tx+0x1ab/0x2f0 [ath5k]
 [<80435948>] tasklet_action+0x78/0xc1
 [<80436034>] __do_softirq+0x75/0x121
 [<80435fbf>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x121
 <IRQ>  [<80435f0c>] ? irq_exit+0x29/0x5d
 [<804042c9>] ? do_IRQ+0x8e/0xa2
 [<80403729>] ? common_interrupt+0x29/0x30
 [<8044007b>] ? __queue_work+0x138/0x1af
 [<804b8e53>] ? mntput+0x0/0x15
 [<804b8fb1>] ? path_put+0x15/0x18
 [<8046b551>] ? audit_free_names+0x40/0x59
 [<8046b6fe>] ? audit_syscall_exit+0x91/0x10f
 [<804031d0>] ? sysexit_audit+0x24/0x44
---[ end trace e87e98eb2549568d ]---

Thanks,
Ben

--
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

--
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


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux