Re: BUG kmalloc-2048: Invalid object pointer 0xf656ad80

[Bryan Donlan]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> doing a:
>>> sudo /sbin/rmmod wl
>>> (generated a bug message)
>> [snip]
>>> The kernel is tainted with nvidia, and a broadcom wl.
>>
>> Would this broadcom wl be the very module you're trying to remove?
>> What makes you think this isn't a bug in this wl binary module? From
>> the looks of the backtrace it's dying due to a free of a wild pointer
>> right in the middle of the wl module - it certainly doesn't look like
>> it came from some other subsystem...
>>
>
> yup,
> remove wl, in exchange
> for ndiswrapper. and poof
> this showed up..

The bug came up in the wl module's removal code - I'd suggest just not
loading it in the first place.
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