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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810c9204>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x622/0x696
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:05:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310000502.GA13763@hash.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1103091549020.16989@router.home>

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:54:24PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> [ 7419.322770] wlan0: associated
> [ 7427.161366] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame
> [ 7427.161432] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA!
> [ 7434.492398] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame
> [ 7434.492462] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA!
> [ 7603.339047]
> =============================================================================
> [ 7603.339053] BUG radix_tree_node: Padding overwritten. 0xffff88000008fe00-0xffff88000008fe32

> Could the ath driver corrupt memory if the TX DMA cannot be stopped?

Looks like ath_draintxq() can do something bad (e.g. DMA engine uses
an old address from ath_tx_return_buffer()) if DMA is still active
in ath_drain_all_txq().

But this is ath9k which I'm not so familiar with, maybe Luis can say.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-03-09 21:54         ` <IRQ> [<ffffffff810c9204>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x622/0x696 Christoph Lameter
2011-03-10  0:05           ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2011-03-15 20:59             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-03-15 21:28               ` Justin P. Mattock
2011-03-15 22:13                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-03-15 23:56                   ` Justin P. Mattock

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