From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
To: Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG kmalloc-2048: Invalid object pointer 0xf656ad80
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:00:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e8340490904082000h39a19ad8mc2c2fe9a9ab88685@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd18b0c30904081950t4ce7186fy4430ceeb36540232@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> doing a:
>>> sudo /sbin/rmmod wl
>>> (generated a bug message)
>> [snip]
>>> The kernel is tainted with nvidia, and a broadcom wl.
>>
>> Would this broadcom wl be the very module you're trying to remove?
>> What makes you think this isn't a bug in this wl binary module? From
>> the looks of the backtrace it's dying due to a free of a wild pointer
>> right in the middle of the wl module - it certainly doesn't look like
>> it came from some other subsystem...
>>
>
> yup,
> remove wl, in exchange
> for ndiswrapper. and poof
> this showed up..
The bug came up in the wl module's removal code - I'd suggest just not
loading it in the first place.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 2:19 Justin Mattock
2009-04-09 2:38 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-04-09 2:50 ` Justin Mattock
2009-04-09 3:00 ` Bryan Donlan [this message]
2009-04-09 3:06 ` Justin Mattock
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