netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix channel switch for chanctx-based drivers

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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:40:28 +0300
From:	Luca Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>
To:	Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@...ux.intel.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix channel switch for chanctx-based drivers

On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 13:19 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> The new_ctx pointer is set only for non-chanctx
> drivers. This yielded a crash for chanctx-based
> drivers during channel switch finalization:
> 
>   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
>   IP: ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_switch+0x71c/0xb00 [mac80211]
> 
> Use an adequate chanctx pointer to fix this.
> 
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>
> ---
> Note: This is based on mac80211-next/master albeit
> it should apply cleanly on wireless-next/master
> and v3.17-rc1.
> 
> I've verified this fix with iwlmvm & 7260.

Cool!  I've also tested this (with P2P client) and it works fine.  You
can add my:

Tested-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>

The reason I haven't seen this before is because I've been using 2
channels support with iwlmvm, so we never get an in-place channel
switch. :( The normal case is to have single channel support...

--
Cheers,
Luca.

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