** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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Title:
  mwifiex causes kernel oops when AP mode is enabled

Status in HWE Next:
  In Progress
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  When it's in AP mode, there's quite a chance to find kernel oops
  during reboot.

  This is caused by the wiphy may be NULL for some reason. It's likely a
  bug in mwifiex. We've already pinged Marvell and Murata. Before
  there's a real fix available, we should check wiphy before accessing
  it.

  I've tried a 4.13-rc6 kernel. Though it has oops for NULL pointer
  deference too, it happens in a different function in mwifiex. Thus the
  workaround for Xenial may or may not help for other series. Will need
  to reproduce this issue with Zesty and then we can decide whether this
  workaround should be applied to Zesty.

  [   30.701441] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 
00000000000000f0
  [   30.709511] IP: [<ffffffffc05781b9>] mwifiex_get_cfp+0x49/0x150 [mwifiex]
  [   30.716494] PGD 0
  [   30.718575] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  [   30.721918] Modules linked in: ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 
iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conni
  [   30.836915] CPU: 1 PID: 679 Comm: kworker/u5:0 Not tainted 
4.4.0-57-generic #78-Ubuntu
  [   30.845018] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Edge Gateway 5000/      , BIOS 
01.05.00 10/18/2016
  [   30.853218] Workqueue: MWIFIEX_WORK_QUEUE mwifiex_main_work_queue [mwifiex]
  [   30.860362] task: ffff880077c11980 ti: ffff880075e48000 task.ti: 
ffff880075e48000
  [   30.868018] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc05781b9>]  [<ffffffffc05781b9>] 
mwifiex_get_cfp+0x49/0x150 [mwifiex]
  [   30.877484] RSP: 0018:ffff880075e4bbf8  EFLAGS: 00010202
  [   30.882920] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 
0000000000000004
  [   30.890221] RDX: 0010000000110010 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 
0000000000000004
  [   30.897520] RBP: ffff880075e4bc28 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 
0000000000000001
  [   30.904821] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000000002ff R12: 
0000000000000095
  [   30.912123] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff880075e40000 R15: 
0000000000000095
  [   30.919425] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880071300000(0000) 
knlGS:0000000000000000
  [   30.927701] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  [   30.933581] CR2: 00000000000000f0 CR3: 0000000001e0a000 CR4: 
00000000001006e0
  [   30.940882] Stack:
  [   30.942944]  0000000000000118 ffff880075e40000 ffff8800750c4000 
ffff880075e3ed59
  [   30.950592]  0000000000000095 ffff880075e3ee01 ffff880075e4bcd0 
ffffffffc05846fc
  [   30.958232]  0000000000000000 ffff880075e4bc50 ffffffff8140bcb5 
ffff880075e4bc70
  [   30.965873] Call Trace:
  [   30.968397]  [<ffffffffc05846fc>] 
mwifiex_parse_single_response_buf+0x1fc/0x560 [mwifiex]
  [   30.976772]  [<ffffffff8140bcb5>] ? find_next_bit+0x15/0x20
  [   30.982490]  [<ffffffffc0584d9c>] 
mwifiex_handle_event_ext_scan_report+0x15c/0x340 [mwifiex]
  [   30.991139]  [<ffffffffc058f4c6>] mwifiex_process_sta_event+0x276/0xb40 
[mwifiex]
  [   30.998806]  [<ffffffffc0578952>] mwifiex_process_event+0x102/0x1c0 
[mwifiex]
  [   31.006120]  [<ffffffffc057677e>] mwifiex_main_process+0x5de/0x8d0 
[mwifiex]
  [   31.013346]  [<ffffffffc0576a8f>] mwifiex_main_work_queue+0x1f/0x30 
[mwifiex]
  [   31.020650]  [<ffffffff8109a575>] process_one_work+0x165/0x480
  [   31.026624]  [<ffffffff8109a8db>] worker_thread+0x4b/0x4c0
  [   31.032240]  [<ffffffff8109a890>] ? process_one_work+0x480/0x480
  [   31.038387]  [<ffffffff810a0c08>] kthread+0xd8/0xf0
  [   31.043384]  [<ffffffff810a0b30>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1e0/0x1e0
  [   31.050071]  [<ffffffff8183788f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
  [   31.055596]  [<ffffffff810a0b30>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1e0/0x1e0
  [   31.062276] Code: 85 c9 0f 84 ef 00 00 00 40 0f b6 de 49 89 fe 41 89 cd 89 
df 41 89 d4 e8 46 f1 00 00 84 c0 49 8b 86 e0 13 00 00 0f 84 98 00
  [   31.082756] RIP  [<ffffffffc05781b9>] mwifiex_get_cfp+0x49/0x150 [mwifiex]
  [   31.089820]  RSP <ffff880075e4bbf8>
  [   31.093392] CR2: 00000000000000f0
  [   31.096787] ---[ end trace f3a762be5787f138 ]---

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