Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > Low level driver could pass rx frames to us after disassociate, what > can lead to run conn_mon_timer by ieee80211_sta_rx_notify(). Thats > is obviously wrong, but nothing happens until we unload modules and > resources are used after free. If kernel debugging is enabled following > warning could be observed: I just hit this issue right after unloading ath9k_htc. I haven't tested your patch yet. general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/regulatory.0/uevent CPU 1 Modules linked in: arc4 ecb mac80211 cfg80211 ipv6 ext2 i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit mct_u232 usbserial joydev pcmcia uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore psmouse yenta_socket pcmcia_rsrc] Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 2.6.38-rc5-wl #43 LENOVO 7661GN4/7661GN4 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81073e3b>] [<ffffffff81073e3b>] __queue_work+0xab/0x480 RSP: 0018:ffff88007d503d40 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: ffff88003765f0d0 RBX: ffff88007d50f600 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000002601 RSI: ffffffff818443c0 RDI: ffff88007d50f600 RBP: ffff88007d503d80 R08: 000000000005e3c0 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000104 R12: ffff88003765f0c8 R13: 0000000000000282 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff1000ea433a00 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007d500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00007f81dde2c098 CR3: 0000000001573000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process kworker/0:0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88007a8c2000, task ffff88007a8b9f60) Stack: ffff88007d503dc0 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffff88007a8c2000 ffff88007a8c3fd8 ffff88007d503e80 0000000000000102 ffff88007a8c3fd8 ffff88007d503d90 ffffffff8107425d ffff88007d503dc0 ffffffff810742c6 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8107425d>] queue_work_on+0x1d/0x30 [<ffffffff810742c6>] queue_work+0x36/0x60 [<ffffffff810927ad>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x5d/0x180 [<ffffffffa036757d>] ieee80211_queue_work+0x3d/0x50 [mac80211] [<ffffffffa0351b6f>] ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer+0x2f/0x40 [mac80211] [<ffffffff81067f11>] run_timer_softirq+0x1a1/0x430 [<ffffffff81067e7c>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x10c/0x430 [<ffffffffa0351b40>] ? ieee80211_sta_conn_mon_timer+0x0/0x40 [mac80211] [<ffffffff8105fa89>] __do_softirq+0xd9/0x260 [<ffffffff8108a748>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x48/0x100 [<ffffffff8108a81a>] ? tick_program_event+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff8100cd9c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [<ffffffff8100f0e5>] do_softirq+0xa5/0xe0 [<ffffffff8105fd2d>] irq_exit+0x9d/0xa0 [<ffffffff81029d6b>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0xa0 [<ffffffff8100c853>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20 <EOI> [<ffffffff81014605>] ? native_sched_clock+0x15/0x70 [<ffffffffa00ed027>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x261/0x299 [processor] [<ffffffffa00ed020>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x25a/0x299 [processor] [<ffffffff812c9734>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xc4/0x2f0 [<ffffffff8100a23b>] cpu_idle+0xab/0x110 [<ffffffff81395c2d>] start_secondary+0x1f6/0x1fd Sujith -- 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