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Message-ID: <20111031160342.GB2225@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:03:43 +0100
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Tomáš Janoušek <tomi@...i.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iwlagn: memory corruption with WPA enterprise

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:15:54PM +0200, Tomáš Janoušek wrote:
> Is there anything I can do to track this down? Perhaps try some experimental
> uCode or something?

You may try debugging patches I posted a while ago:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=131914560820378&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=131914560820293&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=131914560820317&w=2

With a bit of luck, kernel should panic and dump call-trace when
bad code start to write at memory addresses where is not suppose
to.

You have to compile kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and add
corrupt_dbg=1 to catch memory corruption. However that may not
work if you have small amount of memory.

Also would be good to enable other debug options:

CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT=1

CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y

CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y

Stanislaw
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