My wireless access point suddenly started logging tons of messages like these:
Jan 23 19:57:28 apu2 kernel: ath_hal_computetxtime: MCS rate? (index 12; hwrate
0x80)
Jan 23 19:58:28 apu2 syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Jan 23 20:00:19 apu2 syslogd: last message repeated 22 times
Jan 23 20:01:19 apu2 kernel: ath_hal_computetxtime: MCS rate? (index 13; hwrate
0x81)
Jan 23 20:01:24 apu2 syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
Jan 23 20:01:29 apu2 kernel: ath_hal_computetxtime: MCS rate? (index 12; hwrate
0x80)
Jan 23 20:01:54 apu2 syslogd: last message repeated 5 times
Jan 23 20:02:59 apu2 syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
It's been going on for many hours and then suddenly stopped.
Not sure what happened but suspect that maybe a specific station appeared and
then disappeared.
There is comment in the code indicating that this must be a driver bug:
/* Warn if this function is called for 11n rates; it should not be! */
I captured a stack trace of a call:
CPU ID FUNCTION:NAME
0 63516 ath_hal_printf:entry
kernel`ath_hal_computetxtime+0x46
kernel`ath_tx_calc_duration+0x97
kernel`ath_tx_xmit_normal+0x78
kernel`ath_tx_swq+0x267
kernel`ath_tx_start+0x210
kernel`ath_transmit+0x1de
kernel`ieee80211_parent_xmitpkt+0x36
kernel`ieee80211_vap_pkt_send_dest+0x203
kernel`ieee80211_start_pkt+0x249
kernel`ieee80211_vap_transmit+0x7a
kernel`bridge_enqueue+0xb4
kernel`bridge_transmit+0x8c
kernel`bridge_altq_transmit+0x25
kernel`ether_output_frame+0x73
kernel`ether_output+0x4a0
kernel`ip_output_send+0x10
kernel`ip_output+0x1029
kernel`ip_forward+0x2c0
kernel`ip_input+0x66b
kernel`netisr_dispatch_src+0x9c
Not a huge issue but I didn't like that it spammed logs so much.
So, I'd like to get this fixed.
Does anyone have an idea where the problem might be?
Thanks!
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Andriy Gapon
