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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:22:42 -0400 From: me@...copeland.com To: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@...il.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, mickflemm@...il.com Subject: Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated? On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 06:28:36PM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote: > ============================================================================= > [ 2658.663424] BUG kmalloc-4096: Poison overwritten > [ 2658.663483] Ok there are 4 messages here, two of them are definitely 802.11 beacons, which would point the finger squarely at ath5k. We had reports of this some time ago but a few things got rewritten around that time. I'd guess the rx DMA code is still subtly broken. > 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk > [ 2658.664816] Object 0xed3db0c0: c4 00 84 00 00 22 43 89 42 69 4e 12 ca 6f > 6f 6f �...."C.BiN.�ooo > [ 4689.945547] Object 0xed3d9080: c4 00 70 00 00 22 43 89 42 69 fe 08 eb 14 > 14 14 �.p.."C.Bi�.�... Offhand, I'm not sure what pattern these are. > [14487.165341] Object 0xed378040: 80 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 1e 8c 0f 3e af > [24370.460011] Object 0xed3dc100: 80 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 1e 8c 0f 3e af These two are definitely beacons. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- 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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