In multiple SSID cases, it takes time to prepare every AP interface
to be ready in initializing phase. If a sta already knows everything it
needs to join one of the APs and sends authentication to the AP which
is not fully prepared at this point of time, AP's channel context
could be NULL. As a result, warning message occurs.
Even worse, if the AP is under attack via tools such as MDK3 and massive
authentication requests are received in a very short time, console will
be hung due to kernel warning messages.
If this case can be hit during normal functionality, there should be no
WARN_ON(). Those should be reserved to cases that are not supposed to be
hit at all or some other more specific cases like indicating obsolete
interface.
Signed-off-by: Zhi Chen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yibo Zhao <[email protected]>
---
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index 2ae0364..f39c289 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ struct ieee80211_local {
rcu_read_lock();
chanctx_conf = rcu_dereference(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf);
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!chanctx_conf)) {
+ if (!chanctx_conf) {
rcu_read_unlock();
return NULL;
}
--
1.9.1
On 05/10/2019 12:01 AM, Yibo Zhao wrote:
> In multiple SSID cases, it takes time to prepare every AP interface
> to be ready in initializing phase. If a sta already knows everything it
> needs to join one of the APs and sends authentication to the AP which
> is not fully prepared at this point of time, AP's channel context
> could be NULL. As a result, warning message occurs.
>
> Even worse, if the AP is under attack via tools such as MDK3 and massive
> authentication requests are received in a very short time, console will
> be hung due to kernel warning messages.
Since it is a WARN_ON_ONCE, how it the console hang due to warnings? You should
get no more than once per boot?
I have no problem with removing it though. Seems a harmless splat and I removed
it from my tree some time back as well.
Thanks,
Ben
>
> If this case can be hit during normal functionality, there should be no
> WARN_ON(). Those should be reserved to cases that are not supposed to be
> hit at all or some other more specific cases like indicating obsolete
> interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhi Chen <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Yibo Zhao <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
> index 2ae0364..f39c289 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
> +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
> @@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ struct ieee80211_local {
> rcu_read_lock();
> chanctx_conf = rcu_dereference(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf);
>
> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!chanctx_conf)) {
> + if (!chanctx_conf) {
> rcu_read_unlock();
> return NULL;
> }
>
--
Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
On 2019-05-10 22:04, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 05/10/2019 12:01 AM, Yibo Zhao wrote:
>> In multiple SSID cases, it takes time to prepare every AP interface
>> to be ready in initializing phase. If a sta already knows everything
>> it
>> needs to join one of the APs and sends authentication to the AP which
>> is not fully prepared at this point of time, AP's channel context
>> could be NULL. As a result, warning message occurs.
>>
>> Even worse, if the AP is under attack via tools such as MDK3 and
>> massive
>> authentication requests are received in a very short time, console
>> will
>> be hung due to kernel warning messages.
>
> Since it is a WARN_ON_ONCE, how it the console hang due to warnings?
> You should
> get no more than once per boot?
>
Hi Ben,
I was planning to use WARN_ON_ONCE() in the first place to replace
WARN_ON() then after some discussion, we think removing it could be
better. So the patch was based on my first version. Sorry for the
confusing. Will raise another one.
> I have no problem with removing it though. Seems a harmless splat and
> I removed
> it from my tree some time back as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>>
>> If this case can be hit during normal functionality, there should be
>> no
>> WARN_ON(). Those should be reserved to cases that are not supposed to
>> be
>> hit at all or some other more specific cases like indicating obsolete
>> interface.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhi Chen <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Yibo Zhao <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
>> index 2ae0364..f39c289 100644
>> --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
>> +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
>> @@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ struct ieee80211_local {
>> rcu_read_lock();
>> chanctx_conf = rcu_dereference(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf);
>>
>> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!chanctx_conf)) {
>> + if (!chanctx_conf) {
>> rcu_read_unlock();
>> return NULL;
>> }
>>
--
Yibo
On Fri, 2019-05-10 at 15:01 +0800, Yibo Zhao wrote:
> In multiple SSID cases, it takes time to prepare every AP interface
> to be ready in initializing phase. If a sta already knows everything it
> needs to join one of the APs and sends authentication to the AP which
> is not fully prepared at this point of time, AP's channel context
> could be NULL. As a result, warning message occurs.
Please share the dump, I don't think this should be happening. I think
this warning did what it was supposed to, uncover a bug; rather than
remove the warning we should fix the bug.
> Even worse, if the AP is under attack via tools such as MDK3 and massive
> authentication requests are received in a very short time, console will
> be hung due to kernel warning messages.
I don't buy this, it's just a WARN_ON_ONCE().
> If this case can be hit during normal functionality, there should be no
> WARN_ON(). Those should be reserved to cases that are not supposed to be
> hit at all or some other more specific cases like indicating obsolete
> interface.
I agree, but right now I'm inclined to think it's a bug elsewhere rather
than normal operation.
johannes