kernel crash and dabt_svc

[Mohammed Shafi]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:11 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:29:48 +0700, Mulyadi Santosa said:
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Mohammed Shafi <shafi.kernel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > [  486.447220] [<c000de98>] (__dabt_svc+0x38/0x60) from [<bf05c324>]
>
> > If you find that name through grepping kernel source tree, you shall
> > find the culprit. The next number "0x38/0x60" AFAIK is the offset that
> > shall point you to more exact location
>
> To be more specific, the function is 0x60 (decimal 96) bytes long,
> and the pointer is at 0x38 (decimal 56) bytes into it.  So even without
> a disassembly, you know its somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of the way
> through the code.
>
>
thanks Prasad, Mulyadi, Valdis
(ath6kl_deliver_frames_to_nw_stack+0xac/0xf0 [ath6kl_core])

with the arm gdb, am able to find the exact line and based on the test
engineers
inputs, found the fix for crash.

seems fuzzy testing sends a destination mac address as zero, while we
initialize
the list with mac address as zero, and memcmp returns a pointer, which
inturn de-references
to an uninitialized pointer.
below is the fix :-)



»       if (is_zero_ether_addr(node_addr))66

»       »       return NULL;
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