Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?

[Jiri Slaby]

On 04/25/2010 09:22 PM, me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 ï...."C.BiN.ïooo
>> [ 4689.945547]   Object 0xed3d9080:  c4 00 70 00 00 22 43 89 42 69 fe 08 eb 14 
>> 14 14 ï.p.."C.Biï.ï...
> 
> Offhand, I'm not sure what pattern these are.

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

regards,
-- 
js
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