Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:54966 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753162Ab2BXHZI (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:25:08 -0500 Subject: Re: iwlwifi havoc on some APs (rekeying?) From: Johannes Berg To: Wolfgang Breyha Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <1329570582.3443.5.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120218_140949_779575_5BB0DB68) References: <4EE2202A.4080303@gmx.net> (sfid-20111209_155026_272581_C336F412) <1329570582.3443.5.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120218_140949_779575_5BB0DB68) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:25:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1330068305.3426.4.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120224_082512_695737_EF2A13CE) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 14:09 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 15:50 +0100, Wolfgang Breyha wrote: > > > If I connect to this one and start eg. videostreaming it takes only a few > > minutes and my machine gets completly unstable. Various applications crash, > > sounds starts crackling, video gets artefacts. Also doing large downloads > > helps to kill various components. gnome-shell, firefox, ... looks like > > iwlwifi writes random memory. > > Just to give this some public closure as we've been discussing this in > private for a while now -- the problem was caused by the AES-NI FPU > state corruption problem that's been discussed elsewhere for a while. Wolfgang, all, Greg is asking for testers in conjunction with this problem to release 3.2.8: https://plus.google.com/109995262342451767357/posts/TVTyT1DtQKJ johannes