From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758770AbYEPSG1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 14:06:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752774AbYEPSGQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 14:06:16 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:35058 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751409AbYEPSGP (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 14:06:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:04:26 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , NetDev , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 16th 2008 Message-ID: <20080516180426.GA3284@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <482DB93B.2080100@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <482DB93B.2080100@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. My first guess would be that it might be a problem in some code that is only in Fedora kernels? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed