Hard(?) lock when reassociating ath with wpa_supplicant on RELENG_7

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

I seem to be able to lock my machine by going into wpa_cli and asking it
to 'reassoc'. The reason for question mark after "hard" is that debug
information (caused by wlandebug and athdebug) is being printed on the
console. The only way to get machine's attention is to hold power button
for 8 seconds.

Note: manual reassociation is just the handy way to reproduce the
problem -- I have had machine locking up on me the whole day long
completely on its own.

Below are, what I think, relevant pieces of information. If anything is
missing, please, chastise me appropriately and will do my best to
provide. I have rigged firewire console, but am unable to break into the
debugger locally or remotely.

While I am on the subject, I would appreciate couple of the
troubleshooting suggestions:
* is there any way to get sysctl dev.ath.0.debug to appear, other then
defining ATH_DEBUG in something like /usr/src/sys/dev/ath/ah_osdep.h?
* is there minimal, but still usable mask for athdebug and wlandebug? I
have started with 0xFFFFFFFF and kept trimming likely high-volume
settings until output slowed down to the reasonable pace.
* what facility does wpa_supplicant use, when forced to syslog by -s
switch?

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* OS: 
RELENG_7 cvsup'ed on May 11th @ 15:30EST, if_ath is loaded as the module

* HW: 
ath0 at pci0:3:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x058a1014 chip=0x1014168c rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
    device     = 'AR5212 Atheros AR5212 802.11abg wireless'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xedf00000-0xedf0ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on
pci3
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2

* Debug settings:
net.wlan.0.debug:
0xdfffffff<11n,debug,crypto,input,xrate,elemid,node,assoc,auth,scan,output,state,power,dot1x,dot1xsm,radius,raddump,radkeys,wpa,acl,wme,superg,doth,inact,roam,rate>
dev.ath.0.debug:
0xffef8ff0<rate,reset,mode,beacon,watchdog,beacon_proc,calibrate,keycache,state,node,ff,dfs,fatal>

* Console output (somewhat trimmed) is attached -- last group of
messages keeps repeating until I power down the machine.

* Output of 'wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iath0 -d -d -K
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' (hand transcribed) is:
<complaining that it did not find any AP broadcasting needed SSID>
Starting AP scan (specific SSID)
Scan SSID = hexdump_ascii (len = NN)
	xx xx xx xx xx xx

* /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is attached

* Setup: two stations with the identical SSID: Linksys WRT54Gv8 (running
dd-wrt micro) at about 50' and Zyxel P-330W at about 20'. 

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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#
# $Log$
#
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
 
network={
  ssid="xxxxxxxxxxx"
  scan_ssid=1
  priority=1
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  psk="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}