When compiling with gcc-4.5 and CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y (which enables -fno-inline-functions-called-once), p54_tx_80211_header will not be inlined and extra_len will quickly become corrupted because it uninitialized. The outgoing buffer fills up before an attempt to associate with a WPA access point can complete (it goes into an associating 1, 2, 3, timed out direct probe 1, 2, 3 timed out loop with wpa_supplicant and the driver constantly returns ENOMEM). I think this was previously hidden because in gcc-4.4, as well a gcc-4.5 without -fno-inline-functions-called-once, p54_tx_80211_header is always inlined, which may have limited the corruption. It was suggested I submit this upstream by Stefan Bader to resolve LP: #722185 This patch is against 2.6.38.2 Signed-off-by: Jason Conti --- --- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c 2011-04-06 18:05:01.951581773 -0400 +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c 2011-04-06 18:05:26.195581762 -0400 @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ int p54_tx_80211(struct ieee80211_hw *de struct p54_tx_info *p54info; struct p54_hdr *hdr; struct p54_tx_data *txhdr; - unsigned int padding, len, extra_len; + unsigned int padding, len, extra_len = 0; int i, j, ridx; u16 hdr_flags = 0, aid = 0; u8 rate, queue = 0, crypt_offset = 0; -- 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
