Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?

From: Pedro Francisco
Date: Sun Apr 25 2010 - 17:24:15 EST


A Domingo, 25 de Abril de 2010 21:29:45 Jiri Slaby escreveu:
> 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,

Do note that's on a 2.6.32 kernel. I've however a new dmesg/syslog which on a
2.6.34-rc5-daily has the same kind of issues. It's 400kB in size..... Do you
want me to send it to the mailing list?

Or should I open a bug report on the kernel bugzilla and post them there? Or
do both?

--
Pedro
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