#1621: kernel oopses with wlanconfig ath0 destroy, almost always reproducable 
when
wep is used and station is assosiated.
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      Reporter:  anonymous        |       Owner:  mtaylor   
          Type:  defect           |      Status:  assigned  
      Priority:  blocker          |   Milestone:            
     Component:  madwifi: driver  |     Version:  trunk     
    Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  oops crash
Patch_attached:  0                |  
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):

 compiled two exactly same kernels, one with SLAB and the other one with
 SLUB used- with SLAB allocator, all is ok, no oops on wlanconfig destroy -
 the panic i posted above, or ifconfig down - trace from it follows :



 {{{
 [  164.951756] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
 virtual address 000000bb
 [  164.960494]  printing eip:
 [  164.963299] *pde = 00000000
 [  164.966193] Oops: 0000 [#1]
 [  164.969081] Modules linked in: wlan_scan_sta wlan_scan_ap nfsd exportfs
 ipv6 ohci_hcd rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib usbvision videodev v4l2_common
 v4l1_compat uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 e1000 shpchp
 pci_hotplug ath_rate_sample ath_pci ath_hal(P) wlan_acl wlan sky2 3c59x
 skge eeprom w83781d hwmon_vid i2c_amd756 i2c_core ide_scsi
 [  165.001353] CPU:    0
 [  165.001354] EIP:    0060:[<f8bbfd78>]    Tainted: P       VLI
 [  165.001355] EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.22.10-ng-ring3-s2s-sqsh-l7-swan-
 imq-esfq-dnd #9)
 [  165.017464] EIP is at ath_tx_draintxq+0xa8/0x1d0 [ath_pci]
 [  165.023043] eax: 00000000   ebx: f1ffa000   ecx: f6904600   edx:
 00000000
 [  165.029917] esi: 00000000   edi: f50e05dc   ebp: f4a63820   esp:
 f1f29dfc
 [  165.036789] ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 0000  gs: 0033  ss: 0068
 [  165.042714] Process ifconfig (pid: 8654, ti=f1f28000 task=f7c6a000
 task.ti=f1f28000)
 [  165.050372] Stack: 00000282 f50b8000 f4a623a0 f4a63910 00000282
 f50b8000 00000008 00000000
 [  165.059320]        f50b8000 f4a623a0 f4a63820 00000003 f4a623a0
 00000001 f8bbffe9 f50b8000
 [  165.069857]        00000009 00000009 00000246 f4a623a0 f50b8000
 f4a62000 f8bb55a8 f50b8000
 [  165.078808] Call Trace:
 [  165.081640]  [<f8bbffe9>] ath_draintxq+0x79/0x150 [ath_pci]
 [  165.087361]  [<f8bb55a8>] ath_stop_locked+0x58/0x1f0 [ath_pci]
 [  165.093342]  [<c012ccb0>] wakeme_after_rcu+0x0/0x10
 [  165.098361]  [<f8bb577a>] ath_stop+0x3a/0xb0 [ath_pci]
 [  165.103650]  [<c030079c>] dev_close+0x5c/0x80
 [  165.108151]  [<f8b6e241>] ieee80211_stop+0xd1/0x100 [wlan]
 [  165.113798]  [<c030079c>] dev_close+0x5c/0x80
 [  165.118295]  [<c030257c>] dev_change_flags+0x4c/0x130
 [  165.123492]  [<c03475d9>] devinet_ioctl+0x239/0x550
 [  165.128516]  [<c03497ce>] inet_ioctl+0x5e/0x90
 [  165.133100]  [<c02f64c4>] sock_ioctl+0xa4/0x200
 [  165.137776]  [<c02f6420>] sock_ioctl+0x0/0x200
 [  165.142363]  [<c016eb74>] do_ioctl+0x54/0x70
 [  165.146778]  [<c016ecbe>] vfs_ioctl+0x5e/0x1b0
 [  165.151365]  [<c016ee6b>] sys_ioctl+0x5b/0x90
 [  165.155866]  [<c0104012>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 [  165.160457]  =======================
 [  165.164125] Code: 00 00 00 00 85 f6 74 1a 8d 74 26 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00
 00 8b 1e 89 f0 89 de e8 25 0d 74 c7 85 db 75 f1 8b 5f 44 85 db 74 1c 8b 03
 <f6> 80 bb 00 00 00 01 75 59 ff 4b 1c 0f 94 c0 84 c0 75 46 c7 47
 [  165.186527] EIP: [<f8bbfd78>] ath_tx_draintxq+0xa8/0x1d0 [ath_pci]
 SS:ESP 0068:f1f29dfc
 }}}

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