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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: me@bobcopeland.com
Cc: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>,
	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 22:29:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD4A639.8000703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100425192242.GA27921@hash.localnet>

On 04/25/2010 09:22 PM, me@bobcopeland.com wrote:
> 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.

These are CTS frames. So I think ath5k is to blame too :/.

regards,
-- 
js

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-25 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201004230806.13628.pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>
2010-04-23 13:48 ` ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated? 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 [this message]
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

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