From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:3838 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736Ab2BHNoc (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:44:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4F327C30.8060802@broadcom.com> (sfid-20120208_144435_256503_C8E30EF4) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:44:16 +0100 From: "Arend van Spriel" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Johannes Berg" cc: "John W. Linville" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: REGRESSION: crash in wireless-testing smoketest References: <4F313815.3020107@broadcom.com> ( sfid-20120207_154219_853529_011888C8) <4F313C53.2040604@sipsolutions.net> <4F315E7E.7040203@broadcom.com> <1328646776.4223.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <4F32484B.7020409@broadcom.com> <4F327273.5090301@sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <4F327273.5090301@sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/08/2012 02:02 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: >> I rerun the test on a kernel with some more lock checking and got lucky. >> >> Feb 8 08:40:17 lb-bun-10 kernel: [ 514.512283] wlan0: authenticate >> with 98:fc:11:8e:94:57 >> Feb 8 08:40:17 lb-bun-10 kernel: [ 514.512515] wlan0: send auth to >> 98:fc:11:8e:94:57 (try 1/3) >> Feb 8 08:40:17 lb-bun-10 kernel: [ 514.514184] BUG: unable to handle >> kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004 > > ... > >> Apparently, minstrel_ht expects some tx_status field filled in by >> brcmsmac/mac80211. Have not found the problem yet. > > So the patch you sent fixes this? Just making sure it's not a different > thing. > > johannes > Yes. I should probably have referred to this thread. Gr. AvS