Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:13:42 +0200 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated? |
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:06:13AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote: > Greetings! > > Is it possible a faulty ath5k module to affect diverse parts of kernel causing > different oopses to happen referencing things as different as cdrom_ioctl, > find_vma, i915_gem_object_get_pages, get_vfs_caps_from_disk, > warn_slowpath_common (ath5k_tasklet_rx), proc_lookup_de and > _spin_lock(ext4_getattr) [soft lookup]? >
Yes.
A bug a kernel module could corrupt any memory.
If you know a working version of the kernel try a git bisect otherwise just post your dmesg with the crash etc.
regards, dan carpenter
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