Repeatable crash of CT firmware (at least).

[Ben Greear]

As an update, stock upstream kernels and multiple different official firmware versions
crash as well.

I've sent more details off to those that might be able to fix
things.

Thanks,
Ben

On 08/06/2015 12:16 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> In case someone has time an interest, I would be curious if upstream
> firmware/kernels see this problem.  Unfortunately, it takes a bit of
> setup to do this test (namely, constant tx source, and if doing this with
> something like ath9k, then you might need a variable attenuator).
> 
> Possibly just a very loud constant tx source would reproduce the bug
> as well, and possibly it would happen in AP mode, etc.
> 
> Channel 1, HT40
> 
> Configure ath10k in station mode, associate with ath10k AP,
> start transmitting frames (about 4kpps tx, 1kpps rx in my case)
> 
> Add a constant-transmit noise source at around -65 db on the same channel.  This should
> cause ath10k station (and AP) to go silent.
> 
> Shortly after, the station system's ath10k firmware crashes due to assert
> in the firmware CE logic.
> 
> I know that a similar CE assert can happen if the host does bad things
> with the tx descriptors, so I am suspicious that is the case here.  For instance,
> maybe firmware is still trying to transmit the frame when host tears down
> the station vdev??
> 
> Of course, this could all be due to bugs in CT firmware and/or my kernel
> patches...
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 


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