[LEDE-DEV] Problem with iwinfo rpcd plugin and nl80211 (CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd-mod-iwinfo=m CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd-mod-lxc=y)

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 9 November 2017 at 11:00, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've found a problem with iwinfo that appears only with a very specific config.
>
> What happens:
> ubus call iwinfo info '{ "device": "wlan0" }'
> Above call fails to get interface details using nl80211 and fallbacks
> to the wext.
> My last debugging attempt pointed to nlmsg_alloc() returning NULL
> which sounds more like ABI problem rather than malloc failing.

For a reference it was fixed in:
https://git.lede-project.org/?p=project/rpcd.git;a=commit;h=9a8640183c031ece7742fd58d8c7927863c96cf7