From: me@bobcopeland.com
To: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
mickflemm@gmail.com
Subject: Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:22:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100425192242.GA27921@hash.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004241828.37489.pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-25 19:26 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 [this message]
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
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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