Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:33:57 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [008/105] ath9k: Fix kernel panic in AR2427 |
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2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
commit 61e1b0b00c793ad5a32fe2181c9f77115fed5dc4 upstream.
Kernel panic occurs just after AR2427 establishes connection with AP. Unless aggregation is enabled we don't initialize the TID structure. Thus accesing the elements of the TID structure when aggregation is disabled, leads to NULL pointer dereferencing.
[ 191.320358] Call Trace: [ 191.320364] [<fd250ea7>] ? ath9k_tx+0xa7/0x200 [ath9k] [ 191.320376] [<fd1ec7fc>] ? __ieee80211_tx+0x5c/0x1e0 [mac80211] [ 191.320386] [<fd1edd2b>] ? ieee80211_tx+0x7b/0x90 [mac80211] [ 191.320395] [<fd1edddd>] ? ieee80211_xmit+0x9d/0x1d0 [mac80211] [ 191.320401] [<c014218f>] ? wake_up_state+0xf/0x20 [ 191.320405] [<c015dbc8>] ? signal_wake_up+0x28/0x40 [ 191.320410] [<c012a578>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10 [ 191.320420] [<fd1ee308>] ? ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x2e8/0x7c0 [mac80211] [ 191.320425] [<c058f905>] ? do_page_fault+0x295/0x3a0 [ 191.320431] [<c04c4a3d>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1ad/0x210 [ 191.320436] [<c04d96b5>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x105/0x170 [ 191.320445] [<fd1f161a>] ? get_sta_flags+0x2a/0x40 [mac80211] [ 191.320449] [<c04c780f>] ? dev_queue_xmit+0x37f/0x4b0 [ 191.320452] [<c04d75b0>] ? eth_header+0x0/0xb0 [ 191.320456] [<c04cc479>] ? neigh_resolve_output+0xe9/0x310 [ 191.320461] [<c053d295>] ? ip6_output_finish+0xa5/0x110 [ 191.320464] [<c053e354>] ? ip6_output2+0x134/0x250 [ 191.320468] [<c053f7dd>] ? ip6_output+0x6d/0x100 [ 191.320471] [<c0559665>] ? mld_sendpack+0x395/0x3e0 [ 191.320475] [<c0557f81>] ? add_grhead+0x31/0xa0 [ 191.320478] [<c055a83c>] ? mld_send_cr+0x1bc/0x2b0 [ 191.320482] [<c01535d9>] ? irq_exit+0x39/0x70 [ 191.320485] [<c055a940>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x10/0x40 [ 191.320489] [<c015b92e>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x13e/0x2c0 [ 191.320493] [<c0103a30>] ? common_interrupt+0x30/0x40 [ 191.320498] [<c055a930>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x0/0x40 [ 191.320502] [<c0153358>] ? __do_softirq+0x98/0x1b0 [ 191.320506] [<c01534b5>] ? do_softirq+0x45/0x50 [ 191.320509] [<c0153605>] ? irq_exit+0x65/0x70 [ 191.320513] [<c05917dc>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5c/0x8b [ 191.320516] [<c0103df1>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x40 [ 191.320521] [<c016007b>] ? k_getrusage+0x12b/0x2f0 [ 191.320525] [<c039e384>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x117/0x148 [ 191.320529] [<c04a20da>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x7a/0x100 [ 191.320532] [<c01021d4>] ? cpu_idle+0x94/0xd0 [ 191.320536] [<c057ab88>] ? rest_init+0x58/0x60 [ 191.320541] [<c07a58ec>] ? start_kernel+0x351/0x357 [ 191.320544] [<c07a53c7>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19e [ 191.320548] [<c07a50aa>] ? i386_start_kernel+0xaa/0xb1 [ 191.320550] Code: 03 66 3d 00 03 0f 84 7c 02 00 00 83 c3 18 0f b6 03 8b 4d e0 89 c3 83 e3 0f 6b c3 48 89 5d d8 8d 04 06 8d 50 0c 89 55 d0 8b 40 20 <8b> 00 3b 01 0f 85 8e 02 00 00 f6 47 20 40 0f 84 29 ff ff ff 8b [ 191.320634] EIP: [<fd2586d4>] ath_tx_start+0x474/0x770 [ath9k] SS:ESP 0068:c0761a90 [ 191.320642] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 191.320647] ---[ end trace 9296ef23b9076ece ]--- [ 191.320650] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c @@ -1699,8 +1699,8 @@ static void ath_tx_start_dma(struct ath_ u8 tidno; spin_lock_bh(&txctl->txq->axq_lock); - - if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control) && txctl->an) { + if ((sc->sc_flags & SC_OP_TXAGGR) && txctl->an && + ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control)) { tidno = ieee80211_get_qos_ctl(hdr)[0] & IEEE80211_QOS_CTL_TID_MASK; tid = ATH_AN_2_TID(txctl->an, tidno);
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