Re: wpa2 hangs v2.6.32-rc5-402-gb6727b1. Revert 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344 fixed it.

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Jeff Chua wrote:
> 
> I don't know how to redirect the console dump to a file. So, attached is
> what it displayed taken from a camera.

That decodes to 

cfg80211_conn_work+89:

   3:	89 ef                	mov    %ebp,%edi
   5:	e8 6f be 41 e1       	callq  0xffffffffe141be79
   a:	48 8b 43 20          	mov    0x20(%rbx),%rax
   e:	f6 40 48 01          	testb  $0x1,0x48(%rax)
  12:	74 5d                	je     0x71
  14:	83 bb 8c 00 00 00 01 	cmpl   $0x1,0x8c(%rbx)
  1b:	75 54                	jne    0x71
  1d:	48 ?? 50 08          	???    0x8(%rax) ???? uncertain instruction ????
  21:*	8b 02                	mov    (%rdx),%eax     <-- trapping instruction
  23:	41 89 45 00          	mov    %eax,0x0(%r13)
  27:	66 8b 42 04          	mov    0x4(%rdx),%ax
  2b:	66 41 89 45 04       	mov    %ax,0x4(%r13)
  30:	e8 f5 ea ff ff       	callq  0xffffffffffffeb2a

trace:
  __cfg80111_scan_done
  worker_thread

which looks like it matches this code:

        movq    %r14, %rdi      # D.43604,
        call    mutex_lock      #
        movq    32(%rbx), %rax  # <variable>.netdev, <variable>.netdev
        testb   $1, 72(%rax)    #, <variable>.state
        je      .L215   #,
        cmpl    $1, 140(%rbx)   #, <variable>.sme_state
        jne     .L215   #,
        movq    144(%rbx), %rax # <variable>.conn, <variable>.conn
        movq    %rbx, %rdi      # wdev,
        movq    8(%rax), %rax   # <variable>.params.bssid, <variable>.params.bssid
        movl    (%rax), %edx    #* <variable>.params.bssid, tmp74
        movl    %edx, 0(%r13)   # tmp74, bssid
        movw    4(%rax), %ax    #, tmp75
        movw    %ax, 4(%r13)    # tmp75, bssid
        call    cfg80211_conn_do_work   #

ie it looks like 'conn->params.bssid' is NULL and we oops when we try to 
load bssid from there. The code is:

	memcpy(bssid, wdev->conn->params.bssid, ETH_ALEN);

where ETH_ALEN is 6 bytes, so the memcpy is inlined..

And yes, that "memcpy()" was added in that buggy commit. 

So reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344 is the correct thing 
to do. Or somebody needs to fix that piece-of-shit code.

		Linus