wpa_supplicant segfault in large WLAN

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 05:19:20PM -0400, Matt Causey wrote:
> So perhaps I'm revealing my ignorance here, but I cannot repro this
> segfault under valgrind:
> 
> sudo valgrind wpa_supplicant -t -Dnl80211 -onl80211 -dddd -i wlan0 -c
> /var/tmp/nerf.conf
> 
> Is there something I'm missing here?

valgrind can actually "hide" some crashes, but if that happened, you
should see valgrind error messages.. May be it is easiest to direct them
to a file ("sudo valgrind --log-file=/tmp/valgrind.log wpa_supplicant
...") and check whether you'll get entries there about invalid memory
accesses.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA