panic with if_iwi(4) upon "netif restart"

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 30 00:58:16 UTC 2013


Sure, uhm, just remind me to commit it to -HEAD in the next few days. Then
I'll get it backported to stable/9.

Thanks,



-adrian



On 29 September 2013 10:03, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at nsu.ru> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:51:56PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 June 2012 07:28:11 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 08:28:50PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > > > does "ps" in kgdb reveal multiple instances of wpa_supplicant
> running?
> > > > If so, this seems to be the well known devd+netif+supplicant+newstate
> > > > race/missing refcount.
> > > >
> > > > Wanna try attached patch?
> > >
> > > Bernhard,
> > >
> > > Sorry it took so long to get back.  With your patch applied, I haven't
> > > seen this panic for a while, however, double instances of
> wpa_supplicant
> > > still persist.  So I think you can commit it, but underlying race
> remains
> > > to be fixed.
> >
> > Ok, thanks. The patch is indeed supposed to only fix the panics.
> >
> > The underlying problem is that a "netif restart" results in 2
> > calls to "netif wlan0 start", one through the call itself the other
> > due an event sent to devd. wpa_supplicant itself has a small window
> > were it is possible that 2 instances are attached to one resource.
> > I have yet to find a solution for this without adding any regressions.
>
> Funny thing: I've just tried 9-stable on this laptop of mine, and it
> paniced immediately inside iwi_auth_and_assoc() again once I've run
> wpa_supplicant (this time I did not do any of "netif restart" dances).
>
> Applying the same patch fixed it for me and allowed to have working
> network (typing through it right now).
>
> Haven't tried -current yet, but it looks like iwi(4) is unusable at least
> in 9.2.  Can we have this patch committed while real solution is being
> worked on?  It looks like it's going to take a while, and I'd like to have
> working iwi(4) like, uhm, now.  ;-)
>
> ./danfe
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