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Re: Kernel splats in 3.3.7+, mlme.c

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On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 09:17 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> We ran a torture test where we try to associate 130 stations against an AP
> that can only do 128.  The end result is constant resetting of many of the
> virtual station interfaces.
> 
> It ran overnight w/out crashing, but spewed quite a few warnings.
> 
> I will be happy to test patches or attempt fixes if anyone has suggestions
> for what the cause might be....
> 
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): sta128: link is not ready
> WARNING: at /home/greearb/git/linux-3.3.dev.y/net/wireless/mlme.c:310 __cfg80211_auth_remove+0x9b/0xaa [cfg80211]()

This was kinda a known race condition but nobody could ever figure out
what exactly is going on ... the code is gone in 3.4 though :)

johannes

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