Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758582AbZDICiX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:38:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755456AbZDICiO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:38:14 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f118.google.com ([209.85.221.118]:57060 "EHLO mail-qy0-f118.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753698AbZDICiN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:38:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ejV5lovfxSfNNd+ORskZ59ZUT6PsDD0eBVWLJXv4KPP3abTUQSmwmbBuDEtZmz2FoH RbZaVrCeVCDM2VMWHvmonjrh8/HyxY5W8SxBJasf9aY4fcQywjXTqnsgT7dnrnu4oJAS KPjI0mbvgJzH5jtB/6LWKYzt2JftWeV+v08kk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:38:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3e8340490904081938r12f20741kec6c4c7068bd4c45@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: BUG kmalloc-2048: Invalid object pointer 0xf656ad80 From: Bryan Donlan To: Justin Mattock Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 17 On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Justin Mattock 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... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/