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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:41:47 -0500 From: Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com> To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, Felix Bitterli <ic.felix@...il.com> Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc5-git1 -- BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten (ath9k implicated) On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com> wrote: >> Let me know if you want my .config file. I think this was triggered by >> suspending my laptop. >> >> BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten > > Thanks for your report Miles. > > Are you using Linus' tree? Felix wrote some patches that got rid of > the rate control private area which we kmalloc/kfree and at least one > user reported that these patches fixed a memory leak. I'm curious if > the same patches would resolve this issue. > > Only thing is these patches apply against wireless-testing and not > 2.6.32. To test them you'd have to pull wireless-testing master to > your tree and then apply the patches both before and after. > > Would you be up to try that? Yes, definitely. Thanks. I will try to accomplish this and let you know if I get stuck. Miles -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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