On 12 Jul 2010, at 01:07, Andrew Thompson wrote: > On 8 July 2010 07:13, Hans Petter Selasky <hsela...@c2i.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When supplying wpa_supplicant.conf with incorrect passwords, but a valid >> SSID, >> I have seen kernel panics several times when using USB based WLAN dongles. >> When only supplying a valid password, no panic has been seen. >> >> How to reproduce: >> >> 1) configure invalid password >> 2) wpa_cli: reconfigure >> 3) configure valid password >> 4) wpa_cli: reconfigure >> 5) goto 1 >> >> The USB commands which are executed inside the newstate callback usually take >> very little time, but still not as little time as PCI read/writes. I've >> forced >> slower operation in the newstate callback, and can reproduce warning >> printouts >> from the IEEE802.11 layer in FreeBSD. Try to apply the following patch to >> your >> USB code: >> >> http://p4web.freebsd.org/@@180604?ac=10 >> >> In my opinion the deferring of all states to a single task is wrong. There >> should be at least one task per possible state, and the queuing mechanism >> should follow the last-queued is last executed rule. This is not the case >> with >> the task-queue mechanism in the kernel. > > This turned out to be refcounting of the ieee80211_node struct which > was causing this panic. vap->iv_bss can be freed at any time so all > users of it need to bump the refcount to use it safely. > > This patch should fix the panic in the rum driver. > http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/rum_node_refcnt.diff > > There are other places where it is still an issue such as the > ieee80211_tx_mgt_timeout callout which havnt been addressed yet, and > of course all other ieee80211 drivers.
Oh, this makes sense now. My previous attempt at help you made no sense... Regards, -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
