Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 03:40:05 -0800 (PST) From: PseudoCylon <moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jhanna@pangolin-systems.com, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb/144423: if_run panic with USB-N13 Message-ID: <164298.14386.qm@web51805.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <201003051042.41230.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <300673.36369.qm@web51805.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <201003051042.41230.hselasky@c2i.net>
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----- Original Message ----
> From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
> To: PseudoCylon <moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca>
> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org; jhanna@pangolin-systems.com; freebsd-usb@freebsd.org; freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
> Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 2:42:41 AM
> Subject: Re: usb/144423: if_run panic with USB-N13
>
> On Friday 05 March 2010 10:31:35 PseudoCylon wrote:
> > >The files seem a little far from the current I am running, I just used
> > >the updates to the usbdevs file and the unlock-lock around the firmware
> > > load in if_run.c.
> >
> > Yes, there are some bits added to support RT3572 chipsets. It would be
> > greately appreciated if you try that file if it's not too mutch trouble.
> >
> > >The ASUS-N13 does work when a child wlan device is created with it,
> > >but if just "ifconfig run0 up" is done there is a page fault. I do
> > >not know if that is expected. This occurs with or without runfw.ko
> > >being loaded beforehand.
> >
> > Yes, "ifconfig run0 up" will cause page fault. The wlanN interface is
> > should be created as an instance of the parent interface and used for
> > actual communication. This is new feature to 8.0 and 9-current. My
> > understanding is that if you create wlan and "ifconfig *wlan0* up", it
> > works, but if you "ifconfig *run0* up", it causes panic. (Of cource
> > without *. I'm trying to enphasize the point in plain text messeage.) That
> > is what should happen. (Actually, result of "ifconfig *run0* up" is
> > undefined.) "run0" should only be used when creating wlan.
> >
> > If "ifconfig *wlan0* ..." is causing problem, please let us know.
> >
>
> What is the backtrace of the panic?
KDB: stack backtrace:
db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a
_witness_debugger() at _witness_debugger+0x2e
witness_warn() at witness_warn+0x2c2
trap() at trap+0x2f5
calltrap() at calltrap+0x8
--- trap 0xc, rip = 0xffffffff80c5cfd7, rsp = 0xffffff8021f76880, rbp = 0xffffff8021f768c0 ---
run_stop() at run_stop+0x67
run_init_locked() at run_init_locked+0x33
run_ioctl() at run_ioctl+0xad
ifioctl() at ifioctl+0xde4
kern_ioctl() at kern_ioctl+0xc5
ioctl() at ioctl+0xf0
syscall() at syscall+0x1af
Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xe1
--- syscall (54, FreeBSD ELF64, ioctl), rip = 0x800b8286c, rsp = 0x7fffffffe2f8, rbp = 0x7fffffffe300 ---
There are number of places refers uninitialized value in run_stop() and run_init() if vap hasn't created, so it will cause page fault. I can move those instructions to other places (maybe vap_delete). It won't panic but device won't work without vap.
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