[PATCH] Kernel panic in hostap_pci

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Sat Aug 2 22:46:29 PDT 2003


On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:37:10PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> There are two issues here.  One is that the driver should still accept the
> device and mark it as "braindead" to allow firmware download, but no
> network operations.  This may fix loading secondary firmware after the
> primary firmware was loaded in a separate operation.

Look at CVS.. ;-)

> The other issue is the crash itself.  That was easy.  free_irq uses
> dev->irq, but dev is allocated inside local, which is freed already at
> that point.  hostap_plx does it right, by the way.
> 
> The patch is attached.

Thanks, applied.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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