linux-kernel - Re: rc9 + orinoco WPA patchset: BUG: scheduling while atomic loading firmware with PCMCIA adapter

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:41:37 +0400
From:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...mail.ru>
To:	Dave <kilroyd@...glemail.com>
Cc:	orinoco-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rc9 + orinoco WPA patchset: BUG: scheduling while atomic loading firmware with PCMCIA adapter

On Friday 10 October 2008, Dave wrote:
> Thanks for identifying the problem. The Agere case looks good - a few suggestions for the Symbol case though:

Updated patch attached

>  
> But you absolutely have to kfree(pda) here.

Yes, I forgot; sorry.

> Dan Williams wrote:
> > maybe you should not use priv->pda_size but
> > #define SYMBOL_PDA_SIZE 256 and use that for the hermes_read_pda()
> > length just to ensure the patched code is functionally the same as
> > before the patch.
> 
> Using fw->pda_size should be fine. The value comes from a const static, set to 0x100 for Symbol.
> 

Actually it allocated 512 byte before. Should it probably be set to 0x200?

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