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ath5k assumes ah_current_channel is always a valid pointer in
several places, but a newly created interface may not have a
channel. To avoid null pointer dereferences, set it up to point
to the first available channel until later reconfigured.
This fixes the following oops:
$ rmmod ath5k
$ insmod ath5k
$ iw phy0 set distance 11000
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000006
IP: [<d0a1ff24>] ath5k_hw_set_coverage_class+0x74/0x1b0 [ath5k]
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/ieee80211/phy0/index
Modules linked in: usbhid option usb_storage usbserial usblp evdev lm90
scx200_acb i2c_algo_bit i2c_dev i2c_core via_rhine ohci_hcd ne2k_pci
8390 leds_alix2 xt_IMQ imq nf_nat_tftp nf_conntrack_tftp nf_nat_irc nf_cc
Pid: 1597, comm: iw Not tainted (2.6.32.14 #8)
EIP: 0060:[<d0a1ff24>] EFLAGS: 00010296 CPU: 0
EIP is at ath5k_hw_set_coverage_class+0x74/0x1b0 [ath5k]
EAX: 000000c2 EBX: 00000000 ECX: ffffffff EDX: c12d2080
ESI: 00000019 EDI: cf8c0000 EBP: d0a30edc ESP: cfa09bf4
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process iw (pid: 1597, ti=cfa09000 task=cf88a000 task.ti=cfa09000)
Stack:
d0a34f35 d0a353f8 d0a30edc 000000fe cf8c0000 00000000 1900063d cfa8c9e0
<0> cfa8c9e8 cfa8c0c0 cfa8c000 d0a27f0c 199d84b4 cfa8c200 00000010 d09bfdc7
<0> 00000000 00000000 ffffffff
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| ath5k | ||
| ath9k | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| ath.h | ||
| debug.c | ||
| debug.h | ||
| hw.c | ||
| main.c | ||
| reg.h | ||
| regd.c | ||
| regd.h | ||
| regd_common.h | ||