Re: Wireless-testing's b43 panics in b43_generate_txhdr on packet transmit

[Michael Buesch]

On Saturday 31 May 2008 18:50:36 Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 18:41 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 May 2008 18:34:29 Stefanik Gábor wrote:
> > > "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
> > > IP: [<f8dd3a99>] :b43:b43_generate_txhdr+0x6a9/0x790
> > 
> > So can you put a few printks into the function to see where it dereferences
> > a NULL pointer? (or use gdb to lookup the offset).
> 
> u8 key_idx = info->control.hw_key->hw_key_idx;
> 
> info->control.hw_key is NULL.

Is a NULL pointer supposed to tell "do not encrypt", or is this a mac80211 bug?

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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