Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:30:08 GMT From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/125181: [ndis] [patch] with wep enters kdb.enter.unknown, panics Message-ID: <200809010830.m818U8K2051996@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/125181; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "Andrew Thompson" <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: "Coleman Kane" <cokane@freebsd.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/125181: [ndis] [patch] with wep enters kdb.enter.unknown, panics Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:57:42 +0200 On 7/17/08, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:09:52PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: >> Andrew, >> >> I got directed to this PR by onemda@gmail.com (Paul D. Mahol), who's >> been helping me track down some edge cases in the if_ndis locking >> rewrite. I am not 100% familiar with the locking semantics in play here >> (IEEE80211 and VAPs), so I wanted to run it by you before I determine >> that it seems to be working well for me. > > I dont think ndis should be reaching into the net80211 lock. Now that > ndis uses a regular mutex its a good chance to add mtx_asserts in the > right places and get the locking up to speed. I will try to post a patch > soon unless someone beats be to it. > > Andrew > I got hit by this bug again, my only option is to switch to UP kernel until patch for this bug is finally committed. Subject of bug report is no more relevant, becuase this bug has nothing directly related with WEP.
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