Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:45:23 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:41:12 +0200
> Added 3 80211 experts. > > On 04/25/2008 03:57 AM, David Miller wrote: > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:48:32 -0700 (PDT) > > > >> But that 0xf0 definitely has shown up before. It's not the *only* > >> corruption, but it's definitely a very interesting pattern. And the other > >> ones that didn't show the 0xf0 pattern could obviously be due to pointers > >> that were corrupted by 0xf0 in low bytes, so it _may_ be the source of the > >> other corruptions too that didn't have an obvious 0xf0 directly in them. > > > > Ok. > > > > Do we know of any pattern of the wireless device type in use? > > If there is a pattern to that, it would be a huge clue. > > > > And if it is predominantly one particular wireless device type, we > > should be able to come up with a patch to test. > > Johannes, Michael, Jiri? Someone writes to freed memory patterns 0xf0 (not > aligned to anything, addressed per byte), one of suspects is mac80211, don't you > know that pattern from anywhere?
I notice Jiri, in your hardware list, you have an ath5k Atheros AR5212 chip in there.
I took a look at the resume code for ath5k but nothing really suspicious there except:
err = pci_enable_device(pdev); if (err) return err;
pci_restore_state(pdev);
Shouldn't we restore state before we turn the chip back on and thus potentially let it start DMA'ing all over the place?
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