From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@xxxxxxxxxxx> Kernel panic occurs just after AR2427 establishes connection with AP. Unless aggregation is enabled we don't initialize the TID structure. Thus accesing the elements of the TID structure when aggregation is disabled, leads to NULL pointer dereferencing. [ 191.320358] Call Trace: [ 191.320364] [<fd250ea7>] ? ath9k_tx+0xa7/0x200 [ath9k] [ 191.320376] [<fd1ec7fc>] ? __ieee80211_tx+0x5c/0x1e0 [mac80211] [ 191.320386] [<fd1edd2b>] ? ieee80211_tx+0x7b/0x90 [mac80211] [ 191.320395] [<fd1edddd>] ? ieee80211_xmit+0x9d/0x1d0 [mac80211] [ 191.320401] [<c014218f>] ? wake_up_state+0xf/0x20 [ 191.320405] [<c015dbc8>] ? signal_wake_up+0x28/0x40 [ 191.320410] [<c012a578>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10 [ 191.320420] [<fd1ee308>] ? ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x2e8/0x7c0 [mac80211] [ 191.320425] [<c058f905>] ? do_page_fault+0x295/0x3a0 [ 191.320431] [<c04c4a3d>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1ad/0x210 [ 191.320436] [<c04d96b5>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x105/0x170 [ 191.320445] [<fd1f161a>] ? get_sta_flags+0x2a/0x40 [mac80211] [ 191.320449] [<c04c780f>] ? dev_queue_xmit+0x37f/0x4b0 [ 191.320452] [<c04d75b0>] ? eth_header+0x0/0xb0 [ 191.320456] [<c04cc479>] ? neigh_resolve_output+0xe9/0x310 [ 191.320461] [<c053d295>] ? ip6_output_finish+0xa5/0x110 [ 191.320464] [<c053e354>] ? ip6_output2+0x134/0x250 [ 191.320468] [<c053f7dd>] ? ip6_output+0x6d/0x100 [ 191.320471] [<c0559665>] ? mld_sendpack+0x395/0x3e0 [ 191.320475] [<c0557f81>] ? add_grhead+0x31/0xa0 [ 191.320478] [<c055a83c>] ? mld_send_cr+0x1bc/0x2b0 [ 191.320482] [<c01535d9>] ? irq_exit+0x39/0x70 [ 191.320485] [<c055a940>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x10/0x40 [ 191.320489] [<c015b92e>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x13e/0x2c0 [ 191.320493] [<c0103a30>] ? common_interrupt+0x30/0x40 [ 191.320498] [<c055a930>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x0/0x40 [ 191.320502] [<c0153358>] ? __do_softirq+0x98/0x1b0 [ 191.320506] [<c01534b5>] ? do_softirq+0x45/0x50 [ 191.320509] [<c0153605>] ? irq_exit+0x65/0x70 [ 191.320513] [<c05917dc>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5c/0x8b [ 191.320516] [<c0103df1>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x40 [ 191.320521] [<c016007b>] ? k_getrusage+0x12b/0x2f0 [ 191.320525] [<c039e384>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x117/0x148 [ 191.320529] [<c04a20da>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x7a/0x100 [ 191.320532] [<c01021d4>] ? cpu_idle+0x94/0xd0 [ 191.320536] [<c057ab88>] ? rest_init+0x58/0x60 [ 191.320541] [<c07a58ec>] ? start_kernel+0x351/0x357 [ 191.320544] [<c07a53c7>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19e [ 191.320548] [<c07a50aa>] ? i386_start_kernel+0xaa/0xb1 [ 191.320550] Code: 03 66 3d 00 03 0f 84 7c 02 00 00 83 c3 18 0f b6 03 8b 4d e0 89 c3 83 e3 0f 6b c3 48 89 5d d8 8d 04 06 8d 50 0c 89 55 d0 8b 40 20 <8b> 00 3b 01 0f 85 8e 02 00 00 f6 47 20 40 0f 84 29 ff ff ff 8b [ 191.320634] EIP: [<fd2586d4>] ath_tx_start+0x474/0x770 [ath9k] SS:ESP 0068:c0761a90 [ 191.320642] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 191.320647] ---[ end trace 9296ef23b9076ece ]--- [ 191.320650] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c index ef22096..26734e5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c @@ -1725,8 +1725,8 @@ static void ath_tx_start_dma(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_buf *bf, u8 tidno; spin_lock_bh(&txctl->txq->axq_lock); - - if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control) && txctl->an) { + if ((sc->sc_flags & SC_OP_TXAGGR) && txctl->an && + ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control)) { tidno = ieee80211_get_qos_ctl(hdr)[0] & IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TID_MASK; tid = ATH_AN_2_TID(txctl->an, tidno); -- 1.7.0.4 -- 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