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SubjectRe: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?
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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