Firmware crash

[Ben Greear]

On 06/26/2014 07:33 AM, Emanuel Taube wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I am able to reproduce it with your firmware-2-ct-no-commercial-7.bin
> here is the crash dump:

Thanks.  I am going to have to update my decode program to parse
this...it doesn't look like 'normal' dmesg output on my systems.
Should have it done shortly...

Ben

> 
> assertion failed? pc=0x9a1a49, line=0, dump area=0x401930
> Target ID: 0x4100016c (1090519404)
> Debug Info:
> 0x4100016c 0x00000000 0x009a1a49 0x00000000 
> 0x00000000 0x00060324 0x00000000 0x00000000 
> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 
> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 
> 0x009b58cb 0x0094085d 0x00000000 0x009a1a49 
> 0x809430b8 0x00401a40 0x00000001 0x00000002 
> 0x80940975 0x00401a60 0x0000001f 0x00403bec 
> 0x409406b9 0x00401a80 0x0000001f 0x00419154 
> 0x00000000 0x00401aa0 0x00050024 0x00000000 
> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 
> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 
> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 
> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 
> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 
> 
> to reproduce it I run 2 ath10k APs, one with the 
> WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN enabled and one without.
> Whichever AP starts first keeps running while the other one
> crashes when trying to start hostapd.
> 
> Thanks,
> Emanuel
> 
> 
> 2014-06-26 15:06 GMT+02:00 Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com <mailto:greearb at candelatech.com>>:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 06/26/2014 04:47 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> 
>             TSF id: 1, free_tsf_id_map: 1
>             assertion failed? pc=0x9a0e15, line=0, dump area=0x401930
>             Target ID: 0x4100016c (1090519404)
>             Debug Info:
>             0x4100016c 0x00000000 0x009a0e15 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x009a0e15
>             0x00000000 0x00401930 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>             0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> 
> 
>         Apparently firmware crashes while processing a beacon frame with a
>         NULL dereference.
> 
> 
>     I fixed some issues in this area in my CT firmware, so you could
>     try it if you want.  If you can crash my firmware, please
>     send me the similar crash dump and I can probably fix it.
> 
>     Note this is not official QCA firmware, so any problems specific to
>     this firmware should be directed at me, and not QCA, and when reporting
>     general bugs (say, with driver), if you are using CT firmware be sure to
>     note that.
> 
>     http://www.candelatech.com/__ath10k.php <http://www.candelatech.com/ath10k.php>
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Ben
> 
>     -- 
>     Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com <mailto:greearb at candelatech.com>>
>     Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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