ath9k: Fix kernel panic in AR2427
authorMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:57:21 +0000 (18:27 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:19:49 +0000 (15:19 -0400)
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>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c

index ef22096d40c918f7d16deb009eb13e0c83a40979..26734e53b37f316aba6693e51dfb0ff755ee02a4 100644 (file)
@@ -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);