linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ath5k: fix hw rate index condition

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:29:52 +0530
From:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.lists@...gianis.in>,
	linville@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net,
	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ath5k: fix hw rate index condition

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:08:07AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 15.2.2009 14:47, Bob Copeland wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:27:39PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
>>> So I finally managed to hit this on 2.6.29-rc3. It is hard to
>>> reproduce, so I hope so much information is enough to give you a good
>>> guess. This time it hit while trying to connect to an open network at
>>> the airport.
>>
>>> WARNING: at net/mac80211/rx.c:2236 __ieee80211_rx+0x96/0x571 [mac80211]()
>>> Hardware name: 2007CS3
>>> RATE=255, BAND=8
>>
>> band is supposed to be sc->curband?  8 is way wrong.
>
> If you look into the patch which outputs this (backtrace in this  
> thread), sband->n_bitrates is 8. I have no idea what I have been smoking  
> the day I wrote it, but BAND= for sure isn't the right name for that  
> thing. Sorry for the confusion.
>
>> rate could be 255
>> if, for some reason, the hardware rate wasn't in the rate table.
>
> So, we have a fix for this, right? I mean the u8->s8 sc->rate_idx  
> conversion or alike...

Where is the fix? Is it merged in? I still see this happen on 2.6.29

thanks,
-- 
regards,
Dhaval
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