From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753909Ab0ENBNZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 21:13:25 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:64848 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753025Ab0ENBNX (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 21:13:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tl96a/DE532scCShGF8esW9b7nT9TMehlS3vzq3VVRFwzsiZwwWWhgM7COGaONeXvf 2DUVMyXJYGdAAZEOup4u2Q+1AD4K2xEzSKyPQrM2lIPPSXgW6TEIwDXiZx4Qe5WJuxYw fuN28oMsio636PqqzNJqj9Pj/oKG2Gx8vZ1C8= Message-ID: <4BECA3AE.4070607@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 18:13:18 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091114 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruno Randolf CC: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ath9k: BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten References: <4BEC7A84.3010503@gmail.com> <4BEC9E6B.30809@gmail.com> <201005141008.20667.br1@einfach.org> In-Reply-To: <201005141008.20667.br1@einfach.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/13/10 18:08, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010 09:50:51 Justin P. Mattock wrote: >> On 05/13/10 17:28, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Justin P. Mattock >>> >>> wrote: >>>> On 05/13/10 16:01, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Justin P. Mattock >>>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> not sure what this is, but while at a convention >>>>>> I was trying to access the internet and(below is >>>>>> full dmesg) this showed up. >>>>>> >>>>>> After receiving this, I sat and tried to re-create >>>>>> my steps to reproduce but had no luck(was even going >>>>>> todo a bisect n the spot if I could re-create). >>>>> >>>>> OK this stuff is hard to reproduce it seems.. you have an Atheros >>>>> AR5418 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR5133 RF Rev:81, what kconfig option do you use >>>>> to get the poison stuff? I am just surprised we haven't seen it >>>>> ourselves yet. Let me make sure all of us get this kconfig option >>>>> enabled. >>>>> >>>>> Luis >>>> >>>> CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m >>>> # CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG is not set >>>> CONFIG_ATH5K=m >>>> # CONFIG_ATH5K_DEBUG is not set >>>> CONFIG_ATH9K_HW=m >>>> CONFIG_ATH9K_COMMON=m >>>> CONFIG_ATH9K=m >>>> # CONFIG_ATH9K_DEBUGFS is not set >>>> >>>> if you need my .config let me know. >>>> (I can try again reproducing, but man >>>> just doesn't easily fire off). >>> >>> Oh I mean the config options to enable the poison rant. >>> >>> Luis >> >> shoot.. not sure how to grep for the right info >> in the .config for you, heres what grepping for COFIG_DEBUG >> looks like: >> CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_PI_LIST=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y >> CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y > > oh, this reminds me of a similar report we had for ath5k: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15861 > > the subject on this mailing list was "ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel > parts unrelated?" > > bruno > Could be.. From what I remember all I was doing was switching from one wireless network to another (then opening firefox to sign my life away). eventually giving up, realizing I needed 99 big ones to be back on the grid. (beauty of git though is I don't need to be online to work). Justin P. Mattock