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authorMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>2011-03-21 15:57:21 +0300
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-03-21 22:19:49 +0300
commit61e1b0b00c793ad5a32fe2181c9f77115fed5dc4 (patch)
treeaf6403752aa8db7eee6dd58c58dd5479e27158a5 /drivers/net
parent858022aa6fad90ec86c567cbf54682a61dd39a01 (diff)
downloadlinux-61e1b0b00c793ad5a32fe2181c9f77115fed5dc4.tar.xz
ath9k: Fix kernel panic in AR2427
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 Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
index ef22096d40c9..26734e53b37f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -1725,8 +1725,8 @@ static void ath_tx_start_dma(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_buf *bf,
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);