From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:13:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100423191342.GI29093@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004230806.13628.pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:06:13AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Is it possible a faulty ath5k module to affect diverse parts of kernel causing
> different oopses to happen referencing things as different as cdrom_ioctl,
> find_vma, i915_gem_object_get_pages, get_vfs_caps_from_disk,
> warn_slowpath_common (ath5k_tasklet_rx), proc_lookup_de and
> _spin_lock(ext4_getattr) [soft lookup]?
>
Yes.
A bug a kernel module could corrupt any memory.
If you know a working version of the kernel try a git bisect otherwise
just post your dmesg with the crash etc.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-23 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-23 7:06 ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated? Pedro Francisco
2010-04-23 13:48 ` John W. Linville
2010-04-23 16:37 ` me
2010-04-23 16:43 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-04-24 8:59 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-24 8:56 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-24 12:05 ` me
2010-04-24 12:09 ` Vegard Nossum
2010-04-24 17:28 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-25 19:22 ` me
2010-04-25 20:29 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-04-25 21:24 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-27 11:04 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-28 21:52 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-29 7:17 ` Vegard Nossum
2010-04-29 10:25 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-23 19:13 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-04-24 9:27 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-24 12:13 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-04-24 13:13 ` Pedro Francisco
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