On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 07:15, Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 23:37, Arend Van Spriel
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2/14/2019 11:30 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > > I've just found a well reproducible brcmfmac crash (NULL pointer
> > > dereference).
> > >
> > > Steps:
> > > 1. Wait for or trigger a FullMAC firmware crash
> > > 2. Wait for some skb to get queued on a flowring
> > > 3. Call rmmod brcmfmac
> > >
> > > Problem:
> > > There is a NULL pointer dereference in one of the brcmf_detach() calls.
> > >
> > > Explanation:
> > > brcmf_detach() first frees all "ifp"s and then deletes flowrings. If any
> > > flowring has a skb it results in calling brcmf_txfinalize() which tries
> > > to access "ifp" (struct brcmf_if) which is a NULL.
> >
> > Hi Rafał,
> >
> > Thanks for diving in. That was my suspicion. Does it mean you are
> > working on a patch or shall I take care of it.
>
> It would be nice to have someone more experienced with detaching &
> rings look at it. Is adding a simple
> if (ifp)
> enough? Or should that code get redesigned? Should we e.g. reorder detach 
> order?

Hi Arend, would you find a moment to look at that crash, please?

-- 
Rafał

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