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iwl3945 in 2.6.24-8 spams syslog

Bug #194662 reported by Steve Langasek on 2008-02-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #190475: iwl3945 produces a lot of error messages in syslog. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

After booting to 2.6.24-8, my iwl3945 driver is now spamming dmesg with messages of the sort:

[ 9416.140803] wmaster0: RX WEP frame with unknown keyidx 0 (A1=00:19:d2:76:2a:cb A2=00:0f:66:18:c2:5c A3=00:a0:cc:3b:05:7e)
[ 9416.198667] wmaster0: RX WEP frame with unknown keyidx 0 (A1=00:19:d2:76:2a:cb A2=00:0f:66:18:c2:5c A3=00:a0:cc:3b:05:7e)

There are several of these per second and they manage to not be filtered out as duplicates by syslog, with the result that all three of /var/log/debug, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/kernel fill up at an annoying rate.

I discovered this bug when my root partition filled up and things stopped working.

$ uname -a
Linux dario 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:13:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2008-02-23

Changed in linux:
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Confirmed

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ath (alberto-botti) wrote on 2008-02-23:

I can confirm the same behaviour with the iwl4965 driver running a daily livecd build (2.6.24-8, me too on x86_64), it started in 2.6.24-7 if I remember correctly.
I've seeing it happen both with WEP and WPA-Enterprise (TKIP) networks.

By the way, the iwl4965 driver started working much better than before in these releases, it really caused many problems with my WPA Enterprise setup in Gutsy...

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Elie De Brauwer (elie) wrote on 2008-02-24:

Also confirming this bug, and the fact that this bug is annoying, i'm running hardy with the latest update.

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Matthew Nuzum (newz) wrote on 2008-02-24:

I too have this problem on Hardy Alpha 5 (clean install). I'm using i386.

$ wc -l /var/log/syslog && sleep 5 && wc -l /var/log/syslog
51988 /var/log/syslog
51993 /var/log/syslog

$ tail -n 3 /var/log/syslog
Feb 24 14:43:11 matts-laptop kernel: [139897.565769] wmaster0: RX WEP frame with unknown keyidx 0 (A1=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff A2=00:16:01:4d:fa:57 A3=00:0c:29:3d:84:8e)
Feb 24 14:43:11 matts-laptop kernel: [139897.568298] wmaster0: RX WEP frame with unknown keyidx 0 (A1=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff A2=00:16:01:4d:fa:57 A3=00:0c:29:3d:84:8e)
Feb 24 14:43:12 matts-laptop kernel: [139897.666273] wmaster0: RX WEP frame with unknown keyidx 0 (A1=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff A2=00:16:01:4d:fa:57 A3=00:16:ce:18:12:54)

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ath (alberto-botti) wrote on 2008-02-26:

Still the same problem on the just released 2.6.24-10-generic kernel, but a little different message...

[ 327.388179] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-3)
[ 328.965921] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-2)
[ 330.037746] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-2)
[ 330.355274] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-2)
[ 330.606206] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-2)
[ 330.682393] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-2)
[ 331.218000] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-2)
[ 331.517892] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-2)
[ 331.780566] wmaster0: TKIP decrypt failed for RX frame from 00:18:84:26:7b:f9 (res=-3)