linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng

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Message-ID: <20101231024653.GA24879@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:46:53 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@...Ilmenau.DE>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@...tech.com>,
	Michal Ludvig <michal@...ix.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:25:51AM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
>
> Confirmed. No crashes with the junk buffer in action.
> I applied both patches (dump_stack() in hwrng_register() and junk[]
> after priv data) to vanilla 2.6.37-rc7 and tested both: via-rng and my
> via+rng2 as well as via-rng and b43-rng - no crashes. The (previously
> also crashing) `cat rng_available' does survive as well:
> 
> $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_available
> via b43_phy0 via2 
> $ 
> 
> Attached 2 dmesg excerpts.

Thanks for checking.  Can you provide the output of

	cat /proc/cpuinfo

Cheers,
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