On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Robert Brown <robert.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There seems to be stale data in the skb that ath5k_tacklet_rx passes to
> __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet. Note that ieee80211_deliver_skb does not pass
> it along to netif_rx.
It'd be interesting to know where mac80211 drops it.
> Does this information help figure out the problem? Both instances of
> corruption that I've seen today appear related to stale data in
> ath5k_tasklet_rx's skb.
Yeah it's a very good clue. How many hops are you from the FTP server?
> As someone suggested earlier, I should collect a network trace with a
> separate computer to see what's being transmitted over the air.
I think this would be pretty useful, so we could see if there are TCP
retransmissions, etc. Can you also add a printk of the addresses ("%p")
of skb->data and bf frmo the rx tasklet?
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