Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:34238 "EHLO mail-yw0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752695AbcLQVTp (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2016 16:19:45 -0500 Received: by mail-yw0-f169.google.com with SMTP id t125so48511221ywc.1 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 13:19:45 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161216203538.GA12608@animalcreek.com> References: <1461008921-15100-1-git-send-email-geoff@kuvee.com> <20160422000119.GA21754@animalcreek.com> <20161213220545.GA29317@animalcreek.com> <20161214155743.GA22282@animalcreek.com> <20161214171010.GA29321@animalcreek.com> <20161214223123.GA10281@animalcreek.com> <20161216045210.GA29196@animalcreek.com> <20161216203538.GA12608@animalcreek.com> From: Geoff Lansberry Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 16:19:04 -0500 Message-ID: (sfid-20161217_221950_944234_5EAF835B) Subject: Re: [Patch] NFC: trf7970a: To: Mark Greer Cc: linux-wireless , Lauro Ramos Venancio , Aloisio Almeida Jr , Samuel Ortiz , Justin Bronder Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mark, from our consultant: It isn't important whether the flood script is successful in writing or not. The point of it is to force a segfault by making many requests. It needs to run for several hundred iterations (successful or not) in order to generate the segfault. Geoff Geoff Lansberry Engineering Guy Kuv=C3=A9e, Inc 125 Kingston St., 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02111 1-617-290-1118 (m) geoff.lansberry (skype) http://www.kuvee.com On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Mark Greer wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:52:10PM -0700, Mark Greer wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 03:31:23PM -0700, Mark Greer wrote: >> > I'll start on this >> > tonight but won't likely get far until tomorrow. In the meantime, >> > if you and/or your contractor make progress, please share. >> >> Geoff, >> >> Which version of neard are you using? 0.16? > > Also, the flood.py script doesn't work well at all for me. At best, > it works successfully for one iteration and then fails continually for > all other iterations. This is true when using the trf7970a and pn533 > drivers. > > I've tweaked it a but but still no success. I haven't looked all that > closely at it but since you said you were persuing this, I'll wait to > hear more from you. > > Mark > --