kernel panic in monitor mode (bug?)

Wed Jul 9 11:00:04 PDT 2003

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:56:05PM +0200, Samuel B. wrote:

> i've found a bug in hostap driver, that produces kernel panic when
> putting wifi card (z-com xi626) in monitor mode.

> I've tried to fix by just blindly increase allocated buffer (+100 bytes)
> in every dev_alloc_skb() calls in file hostap_hw.c file. After using this
> 'fixed' drivers problem did not apear again...

I changed RX allocation for some special cases in monitor mode. Could
you please verify that the current CVS snapshot fixes the issues you
have seen?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA