Return-path: Received: from nm15.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.146.183.189]:39948 "HELO nm15.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753377Ab1LZWSB (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:18:01 -0500 From: Marek Lindner To: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix kernel panic in IBSS due to a regression Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:11:12 +0800 Cc: "John W. Linville" , Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <1324876409-2031-1-git-send-email-mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> In-Reply-To: <1324876409-2031-1-git-send-email-mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <201112270611.13380.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (sfid-20111226_231822_215001_C454902D) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Monday, December 26, 2011 13:13:29 Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote: > kernel panic occurs when we create an IBSS mode and leave it for > sometime without any joiner and this is introduced by the > commit ec2b774e7c91094d8c00de579646f1162b87b01e where we don't > put proper braces for 'list_for_each_entry_safe' and we pass an > invalid 'sta' pointer to __sta_info_destroy I sw this crash too but did not dive into it yet. Thanks! Some things are too simple .. :-) Cheers, Marek