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Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:38:11 -0400
From:	Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com>
To:	Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG kmalloc-2048: Invalid object pointer 0xf656ad80

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com> wrote:
> doing a:
> sudo /sbin/rmmod wl
> (generated a bug message)
[snip]
> The kernel is tainted with nvidia, and a broadcom wl.

Would this broadcom wl be the very module you're trying to remove?
What makes you think this isn't a bug in this wl binary module? From
the looks of the backtrace it's dying due to a free of a wild pointer
right in the middle of the wl module - it certainly doesn't look like
it came from some other subsystem...
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