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    ath9k: Fix kernel panic in AR2427 · 61e1b0b0
    Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan authored
    Kernel panic occurs just after AR2427 establishes connection with AP.
    Unless aggregation is enabled we don't initialize the TID structure.
    Thus accesing the elements of the TID structure when aggregation is
    disabled, leads to NULL pointer dereferencing.
    
    [  191.320358] Call Trace:
    [  191.320364]  [<fd250ea7>] ? ath9k_tx+0xa7/0x200 [ath9k]
    [  191.320376]  [<fd1ec7fc>] ? __ieee80211_tx+0x5c/0x1e0 [mac80211]
    [  191.320386]  [<fd1edd2b>] ? ieee80211_tx+0x7b/0x90 [mac80211]
    [  191.320395]  [<fd1edddd>] ? ieee80211_xmit+0x9d/0x1d0 [mac80211]
    [  191.320401]  [<c014218f>] ? wake_up_state+0xf/0x20
    [  191.320405]  [<c015dbc8>] ? signal_wake_up+0x28/0x40
    [  191.320410]  [<c012a578>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10
    [  191.320420]  [<fd1ee308>] ? ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x2e8/0x7c0
    [mac80211]
    [  191.320425]  [<c058f905>] ? do_page_fault+0x295/0x3a0
    [  191.320431]  [<c04c4a3d>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1ad/0x210
    [  191.320436]  [<c04d96b5>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x105/0x170
    [  191.320445]  [<fd1f161a>] ? get_sta_flags+0x2a/0x40 [mac80211]
    [  191.320449]  [<c04c780f>] ? dev_queue_xmit+0x37f/0x4b0
    [  191.320452]  [<c04d75b0>] ? eth_header+0x0/0xb0
    [  191.320456]  [<c04cc479>] ? neigh_resolve_output+0xe9/0x310
    [  191.320461]  [<c053d295>] ? ip6_output_finish+0xa5/0x110
    [  191.320464]  [<c053e354>] ? ip6_output2+0x134/0x250
    [  191.320468]  [<c053f7dd>] ? ip6_output+0x6d/0x100
    [  191.320471]  [<c0559665>] ? mld_sendpack+0x395/0x3e0
    [  191.320475]  [<c0557f81>] ? add_grhead+0x31/0xa0
    [  191.320478]  [<c055a83c>] ? mld_send_cr+0x1bc/0x2b0
    [  191.320482]  [<c01535d9>] ? irq_exit+0x39/0x70
    [  191.320485]  [<c055a940>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x10/0x40
    [  191.320489]  [<c015b92e>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x13e/0x2c0
    [  191.320493]  [<c0103a30>] ? common_interrupt+0x30/0x40
    [  191.320498]  [<c055a930>] ? mld_ifc_timer_expire+0x0/0x40
    [  191.320502]  [<c0153358>] ? __do_softirq+0x98/0x1b0
    [  191.320506]  [<c01534b5>] ? do_softirq+0x45/0x50
    [  191.320509]  [<c0153605>] ? irq_exit+0x65/0x70
    [  191.320513]  [<c05917dc>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5c/0x8b
    [  191.320516]  [<c0103df1>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x40
    [  191.320521]  [<c016007b>] ? k_getrusage+0x12b/0x2f0
    [  191.320525]  [<c039e384>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x117/0x148
    [  191.320529]  [<c04a20da>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x7a/0x100
    [  191.320532]  [<c01021d4>] ? cpu_idle+0x94/0xd0
    [  191.320536]  [<c057ab88>] ? rest_init+0x58/0x60
    [  191.320541]  [<c07a58ec>] ? start_kernel+0x351/0x357
    [  191.320544]  [<c07a53c7>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19e
    [  191.320548]  [<c07a50aa>] ? i386_start_kernel+0xaa/0xb1
    [  191.320550] Code: 03 66 3d 00 03 0f 84 7c 02 00 00 83 c3 18 0f b6 03
    8b 4d e0 89 c3 83 e3 0f 6b c3 48 89 5d d8 8d 04 06 8d 50 0c 89 55 d0 8b
    40 20 <8b> 00 3b 01 0f 85 8e 02 00 00 f6 47 20 40 0f 84 29 ff ff ff 8b
    [  191.320634] EIP: [<fd2586d4>] ath_tx_start+0x474/0x770 [ath9k] SS:ESP
    0068:c0761a90
    [  191.320642] CR2: 0000000000000000
    [  191.320647] ---[ end trace 9296ef23b9076ece ]---
    [  191.320650] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
    
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
    61e1b0b0
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