Bug 437980

Summary: kernel warnings from mac80211 in
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Scott R. Godin <rhbugzilla>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Scott R. Godin 2008-03-18 15:15:41 UTC 
Description of problem: noticed warnings in /var/log/messages today from the 
kernel, relating to mac80211 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.24.3-34.fc8

How reproducible: unknown


Steps to Reproduce:
1. unknown
  
Actual results:
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel: WARNING: at net/mac80211/rx.c:2184 
__ieee80211_rx() (Tainted: P       ) 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P        
2.6.24.3-34.fc8 #1 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<eea0cf11>] __ieee80211_rx+0x85/0x576 
[mac80211] 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c05c1f8e>] __kfree_skb+0x8/0x61 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<ee9fd71a>] ieee80211_tx_status+0x2e9/0x2f1 
[mac80211] 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<ee9fea04>] ieee80211_tasklet_handler+0x50/
0xea [mac80211] 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c04336aa>] tasklet_action+0x58/0xb8 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c04335c2>] __do_softirq+0x66/0xd3 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c040759a>] do_softirq+0x6c/0xce 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0446d4b>] tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x93/
0xa8 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0441e54>] ktime_get+0xf/0x2b 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0461dfb>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0xa6 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0433485>] irq_exit+0x38/0x6b 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c040769b>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb8 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0403e31>] default_idle+0x0/0x55 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0405bbf>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0403e31>] default_idle+0x0/0x55 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0421fb8>] native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0403e6a>] default_idle+0x39/0x55 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c0403653>] cpu_idle+0xac/0xcd 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c07509df>] start_kernel+0x336/0x33e 
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  [<c07500e0>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x195
Mar 18 09:49:05 localhost kernel:  =======================

Expected results:
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Additional info:

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the current ethernet devices installed are as follows:
$ lspci | egrep -i '(network|ethernet)'
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Ethernet Controller (rev 
c2)
01:06.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/
8139C+ (rev 10)
Comment 1 John W. Linville 2008-05-05 16:06:41 UTC 
I believe this problem was resolved some time ago.  Are you you still seeing 
it with a current kernel?
Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 06:41:01 UTC 
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 3 Scott R. Godin 2008-05-25 20:12:12 UTC 
no longer seeing these as of kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8