kern/143595: Creating virtual interface over wpi0 in monitor mode causes crash

[Gautham Ganapathy]

>Number:         143595
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Creating virtual interface over wpi0 in monitor mode causes crash
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 06 00:50:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gautham Ganapathy
>Release:        8-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD spock 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #4: Sun Jan 31 09:16:32 IST 2010     root at spock:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
After I bring all n/w interfaces down (/etc/rc.d/netif stop) and then
create an virtual interface over wpi0 in monitor mode (ifconfig wlan0
create wlandev wpi0 wlanmode monitor), the system crashes.

>How-To-Repeat:
/etc/rc.d/netif stop
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 wlanmode monitor

>Fix:


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