From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mo-p05-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.181]:34414 "EHLO mo-p05-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753324Ab0DQHCY (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:02:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC95A5C.5020205@acm.org> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:51:08 +0200 From: U Kuehn MIME-Version: 1.0 To: reinette chatre CC: Intel Linux Wireless , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Resolved, was Re: Problem: Regression with iwl 4965 since 2.6.32.10 References: <4BC04027.1090802@acm.org> <1271195092.14052.8010.camel@rchatre-DESK> In-Reply-To: <1271195092.14052.8010.camel@rchatre-DESK> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dear Reinette, reinette chatre wrote: >> In my usual setup, I connect to an WPA2-configured access point using >> wpa_supplicant. Starting with 2.6.32.10 networking stops to work shortly >> after the 4-way handshake. After the next re-keying it works again for a >> short time. >> >> I tracked the problem down to commit >> 44af042e42f2231579ea8ef7586d3789d198f609. >> > > Two more patches following up on the one you mention are on their way to > stable. If you want to pick them up earlier they are: > iwlwifi: counting number of tfds can be free for 4965 > iwlwifi: need check for valid qos packet before free > > In fact ... I just checked and they are both already queued for 2.6.32 > so you can just pick them up from the 2.6.32 stable queue > ( http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=tree;f=queue-2.6.32;hb=HEAD ) > > ... in fact ... I suggest you take all the iwlwifi patches there. > Thanks, that did indeed help. With the four patches iwlwifi-counting-number-of-tfds-can-be-free-for-4965.patch iwlwifi-fix-nfreed.patch iwlwifi-need-check-for-valid-qos-packet-before-free.patch iwlwifi-range-checking-issue.patch applied, 2.6.32.11 works again reliably, as far as I could test so far. Best regards, Ulrich