Re: 2.6.32-rc5-git1 -- BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten (ath9k implicated)

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Miles Lane <miles.lane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Miles Lane <miles.lane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Let me know if you want my .config file. ÂI think this was triggered by
>>> suspending my laptop.
>>>
>>> BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten
>>
>> Thanks for your report Miles.
>>
>> Are you using Linus' tree? Felix wrote some patches that got rid of
>> the rate control private area which we kmalloc/kfree and at least one
>> user reported that these patches fixed a memory leak. I'm curious if
>> the same patches would resolve this issue.
>>
>> Only thing is these patches apply against wireless-testing and not
>> 2.6.32. To test them you'd have to pull wireless-testing master to
>> your tree and then apply the patches both before and after.
>>
>> Would you be up to try that?
>
> Yes, definitely. ÂThanks. ÂI will try to accomplish this and let you
> know if I get stuck.

OK, not sure if a merge of wireless-testing will be clean so you may
want to just clone fresh.. Anyway after you get wireless-testing bits
you'll want to apply these:

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/60127/
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/60128/
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/60126/

If you want to merge wireless-testing you can try:

git merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
master

If that'd doesn't gos smooth just clone it and I think you should be
able to safely --reference your current tree for objects for Linus'
tree.

  Luis
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