netdev - Re: 'iw events' stops receiving events after a while on 4.9 + hacks

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 06:46:53 -0700
From:   Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:     Bastian Bittorf <bb@....de>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'iw events' stops receiving events after a while on 4.9 + hacks



On 05/31/2017 01:18 AM, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
> * Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> [31.05.2017 10:09]:
>>> Is there any way to dump out the socket information if we reproduce
>>> the problem?
>>
>> I have no idea, sorry.
>>
>> If you or Bastian can tell me how to reproduce the problem, I can try
>> to investigate it.
>
> there was an interesting fix regarding the shell-builtin 'read' in
> busybox[1]. I will retest again and report if this changes anything.
>
> bye, bastian
>
> PS: @ben: are you also using 'iw event | while read -r LINE ...'?

I'm using a perl script to read the output, and not using busybox.

I have not seen the problem again, so it is not easy for me to reproduce.

If you reproduce it, maybe check 'strace' on the 'iw' process to see if it is
hung on writing output to the pipe or reading input?  In my case, it appeared
to be hung reading input from netlink, input that never arrived.

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com