Subject: OACTIVE problem on an ath hostap interface
To: , <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Konstantin KABASSANOV <Konstantin.Kabassanov@lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 05/29/2006 18:04:00
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Hi,

I've still this kind of problems on my Soekris boxes when their hostap
interfaces go to OACTIVE state. It seems to be a driver problem.

ath1: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ssid TEST apbridge nwkey TOTO2
        powersave off
        bssid 00:20:a6:52:24:34 chan 6
        address: 00:20:a6:52:24:34
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g hostap
        status: active
        inet6 2001:660:3302:2a20:220:a6ff:fe52:2434 prefixlen 64
        inet6 fe80::220:a6ff:fe52:2434%ath1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5


In addition outgoing traffic fills up "unknown header mbufs" and finishes by
freezing the box with negative mbuf lengths packets.

# netstat -m -s -s
10399 mbufs in use:
        578 mbufs allocated to data
        9821 mbufs allocated to packet headers
2 calls to protocol drain routines
                                             small        ext    cluster
            ath1 tx            inuse           356         11         11
       internet6               inuse             1          0          0
             tcp               inuse            16          0          0
             tcp tx            inuse             2          0          0
            sip0 rx            inuse           128        128        128
            ath0 rx            inuse             1          1          1
         unknown data          inuse            91         80         80
         unknown header        inuse          9805          2          2


In addition "ifconfig ath1 down" makes the host panic with:

login: panic: unable to setup inital BSS node
Stopped in pid 3902.1 (ifconfig) at     netbsd:cpu_Debugger+0x4:        popl
%
ebp
db>
db> bt
cpu_Debugger(c05a6b84,c05a64e8,c05fc000,c6c63dac,c0112b2b) at
netbsd:cpu_Debugge
r+0x4
panic(c02cc77e,4,c05a64e8,c6c63dc8,c01191a1) at netbsd:panic+0x10f
ieee80211_reset_bss(c05a64e8,c05a603c,c05a6000,c05a8000,c05a8000) at
netbsd:ieee
80211_reset_bss+0x40
ieee80211_newstate(c05a64e8,0,ffffffff,c0494734,c6c63de4) at
netbsd:ieee80211_ne
wstate+0x132
ath_newstate(c05a64e8,0,ffffffff,c05a64e8,1) at netbsd:ath_newstate+0x326
ath_stop_locked(c05a603c,1,c05a64e8,c6c63ec8,0) at
netbsd:ath_stop_locked+0x67
ath_ioctl(c05a603c,80206910,c6c63ec8,8c430000,0) at netbsd:ath_ioctl+0xd3
ifioctl(c0508d80,80206910,c6c63ec8,c600c318,0) at netbsd:ifioctl+0x45d
sys_ioctl(c600c318,c6c63f70,c6c63f68,0,0) at netbsd:sys_ioctl+0x228
syscall_plain() at netbsd:syscall_plain+0x95
--- syscall (number 54) ---
0xbbbb8c37:

Any hint?

Konstantin

P.S. I think this is a good "summary" of several problems I've reported
previously.
 
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