hostapd version 5.7 crashed on madwifi version 9.3 on Gatework 2348 IXP425

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 04:21:28PM -0700, hong zhang wrote:

>   My madwifi driver has beed upgrated to version 9.3 on Gatework 2348 IXP425. And I ported version 5.7 hostapd to the snapgear. The problem looks similar when I used version 4.9 hostapd. Following is Oops message,

I don't think hostapd should cause a kernel oops without a bug in the
driver, but anyway.. 

>   # hostapd ap_wpa.conf

Could you please run this with -dd to get bit more verbosity to debug.

>   Configuration file: ap_wpa.conf
>   ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Invalid argument
>   Could not connect to kernel driver.
>   Using interface ath0 with hwaddr 00:0b:6b:57:ad:75 and ssid 'wpa'
>   Bad mode in data abort handler detected: mode IRQ_32
>   Internal error: Oops - bad mode: 0 [#1]

Would it be possible for you to figure the exact line in hostapd that is
triggering this? The kernel backtrace is indicating that this would be
one of the ioctl() calls and that would point to driver_madwifi.c, but
I'm not sure which ioctl operation is triggering this.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA