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Commit 61e1b0b0 authored by Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan's avatar Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan Committed by John W. Linville
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ath9k: Fix kernel panic in AR2427



Kernel panic occurs just after AR2427 establishes connection with AP.
Unless aggregation is enabled we don't initialize the TID structure.
Thus accesing the elements of the TID structure when aggregation is
disabled, leads to NULL pointer dereferencing.

[  191.320358] Call Trace:
[  191.320364]  [<fd250ea7>] ? ath9k_tx+0xa7/0x200 [ath9k]
[  191.320376]  [<fd1ec7fc>] ? __ieee80211_tx+0x5c/0x1e0 [mac80211]
[  191.320386]  [<fd1edd2b>] ? ieee80211_tx+0x7b/0x90 [mac80211]
[  191.320395]  [<fd1edddd>] ? ieee80211_xmit+0x9d/0x1d0 [mac80211]
[  191.320401]  [<c014218f>] ? wake_up_state+0xf/0x20
[  191.320405]  [<c015dbc8>] ? signal_wake_up+0x28/0x40
[  191.320410]  [<c012a578>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10
[  191.320420]  [<fd1ee308>] ? ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x2e8/0x7c0
[mac80211]
[  191.320425]  [<c058f905>] ? do_page_fault+0x295/0x3a0
[  191.320431]  [<c04c4a3d>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1ad/0x210
[  191.320436]  [<c04d96b5>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x105/0x170
[  191.320445]  [<fd1f161a>] ? get_sta_flags+0x2a/0x40 [mac80211]
[  191.320449]  [<c04c780f>] ? dev_queue_xmit+0x37f/0x4b0
[  191.320452]  [<c04d75b0>] ? eth_header+0x0/0xb0
[  191.320456]  [<c04cc479>] ? neigh_resolve_output+0xe9/0x310
[  191.320461]  [<c053d295>] ? ip6_output_finish+0xa5/0x110
[  191.320464]  [<c053e354>] ? ip6_output2+0x134/0x250
[  191.320468]  [<c053f7dd>] ? ip6_output+0x6d/0x100
[  191.320471]  [<c0559665>] ? mld_sendpack+0x395/0x3e0
[  191.320475]  [<c0557f81>] ? add_grhead+0x31/0xa0
[  191.320478]  [<c055a83c>] ? mld_send_cr+0x1bc/0x2b0
[  191.320482]  [<c01535d9>] ? irq_exit+0x39/0x70
[  191.320485]  [<c055a940>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x10/0x40
[  191.320489]  [<c015b92e>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x13e/0x2c0
[  191.320493]  [<c0103a30>] ? common_interrupt+0x30/0x40
[  191.320498]  [<c055a930>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x0/0x40
[  191.320502]  [<c0153358>] ? __do_softirq+0x98/0x1b0
[  191.320506]  [<c01534b5>] ? do_softirq+0x45/0x50
[  191.320509]  [<c0153605>] ? irq_exit+0x65/0x70
[  191.320513]  [<c05917dc>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5c/0x8b
[  191.320516]  [<c0103df1>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x40
[  191.320521]  [<c016007b>] ? k_getrusage+0x12b/0x2f0
[  191.320525]  [<c039e384>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x117/0x148
[  191.320529]  [<c04a20da>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x7a/0x100
[  191.320532]  [<c01021d4>] ? cpu_idle+0x94/0xd0
[  191.320536]  [<c057ab88>] ? rest_init+0x58/0x60
[  191.320541]  [<c07a58ec>] ? start_kernel+0x351/0x357
[  191.320544]  [<c07a53c7>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19e
[  191.320548]  [<c07a50aa>] ? i386_start_kernel+0xaa/0xb1
[  191.320550] Code: 03 66 3d 00 03 0f 84 7c 02 00 00 83 c3 18 0f b6 03
8b 4d e0 89 c3 83 e3 0f 6b c3 48 89 5d d8 8d 04 06 8d 50 0c 89 55 d0 8b
40 20 <8b> 00 3b 01 0f 85 8e 02 00 00 f6 47 20 40 0f 84 29 ff ff ff 8b
[  191.320634] EIP: [<fd2586d4>] ath_tx_start+0x474/0x770 [ath9k] SS:ESP
0068:c0761a90
[  191.320642] CR2: 0000000000000000
[  191.320647] ---[ end trace 9296ef23b9076ece ]---
[  191.320650] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 858022aa
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