Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:08:06 +0100
From: Ignacy Gawedzki <i@lri.fr>
To: Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] iwlwifi: Move updating of bssid under the
 association_changed flag to avoid crash
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:56:51AM +0530, thus spake Krishna Chaitanya:
> BSSID from the BSS conf should be updated only when
> there is a change in association information.
> 
> This was causing the crash in latest mac80211-next
> when bringing the interface in monitor mode.
> (Basically changing the bss_info).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
> ---
> Note1: Will fix the styling issues while submitting the patch.
> Note2: For monitor mode the flag BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC
> is not set.So its causing the crash.

I'd like to confirm that I had the same problem until I applied this patch.

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