madwifi session timeout causing seg. fault

angelo fontana fonta72
Tue Jan 16 05:43:47 PST 2007


Hi.

2007/1/15, Ahmet Basagalar <ahmet at thebluezone.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have been getting some segmentation faults on the hostapds that we are
> using with madwifi driver. I have found that this is because of the fact
> that session timeouts are not being cancelled although the stations are
> freed. I added
>
> eloop_cancel_timeout(ap_handle_session_timer, hapd, sta);
>
> to the ap_free_sta function in sta_info.c and that fixed the issue. I am
> no
> longer getting seg. faults. (Also you will need to declare
> eloop_cancel_timeout somewhere before ap_free_sta)
>
> Thanks,
> Ahmet


I am using hostapd_0.5.7 and I see that there is another call to
eloop_cancel_timeout in ap_free_sta (line 157), with the same parameters.
Are you using an older version of hostapd?

Thanks.
Angelo.
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