From: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>
To: MR <g7af0ec1e3ea1e7b1@nextmail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: ath9k crash 3.2-rc7
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:27:07 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2nsn2MH7yXWZML5byD1_RW1d0E2Q2rhmnOBHei5iUVPU_ukA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NEXT-4f0a99de7f4ef4.35302262@nextmail.ru>
2012/1/9 MR <g7af0ec1e3ea1e7b1@nextmail.ru>:
> >> So, I am building 3.2 with two patches: over/under-flow catcher (pity
> >that
> >> it seems to be on a multiple-times-per-second codepath and just leaving
> >the
> > > checks there for everyone is suboptimal) and allegedely proper fix. Both
> > > applied OK with a small offset.
> >
> > as per our assumption, we should not see those over/underflow errors,
> > with the patch
> > above mentioned. please let us know if you hit upon this warnings,
> > even after the proper fix.
>
> In my experience (and as I understand the situation) if garbage is writen to
> the "chan", it is caught by the check and device is dead-until-reboot anyway.
> On 3.0, even without checks device was dead-until-reboot, but no crash
> happened. All these checks do is converting "panic" to "WiFi broken" for 3.2.
>
true those checks are to confirm that 'chan' is corrupted and the
patch is to fix it.
--
shafi
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