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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:05:03 +0530 From: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@...il.com> To: MR <g7af0ec1e3ea1e7b1@...tmail.ru> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: ath9k crash 3.2-rc7 2012/1/6 MR <g7af0ec1e3ea1e7b1@...tmail.ru>: > >:( i had put those warnings to prevent the crash itself and what's causing > >it. > > may be i had missed that pos can be < 0 in addition to (pos > 37). > > i am just looking at those areas of code for some other issue. hope i > > can a find a fix > > for both of them > > I am building kernel with pos<0 check added... thanks! if it does not works, i have only one more idea(a patch which removes some suspicious code which abuses a pointer any way that has to be fixed properly ). otherwise i need to recreate the issue and capture the stack trace completely, put debug prints. i ran an overnight test but was unable to recreate the issue. later today AN i got a crash accidentally but only once, after that never. > > I hoped for some ad-hoc stress-test recommendation, but I guess this will have > to wait. > > -- shafi -- 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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