Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 11:19:51 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 16th 2008 |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:41:31AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> ... >> Bug of the week >> --------------- >> Not in the top 10 (but barely not so), but upcoming fast is a bug that has a very >> distinct pattern. >> The backtraces are at http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=fput >> >> The pattern is that the kernel gets an invalid pointer passed to fput(), >> coming down from a select() system call done by the "wpa_supplicant" program. >> The fact that it is ONLY wpa_supplicant implicates the wireless/network stack. >> Another observation is that this only happens with 64 bit kernels, even though >> a large portion of the users uses 32 bit kernels. This implies that this is a 64-bit >> type of bug. It appears that the top 32 bit of the pointers is getting corrupted >> (the bottom part at least looks valid). >> ... > > Unless I misunderstand your webinterface another pattern is a "fc9" in > the version string.
that's because fc9 is the only OS that currently ships the client by default, which means that it's a statistical thing where 90%+ of the reports come from Fedora kernels, just because that's where the data is mined.
> > My first guess would be that it might be a problem in some code that is > only in Fedora kernels?
that may or may not be true, but we can't conclude that right now.
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