Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754171AbZDICvP (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:51:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752493AbZDICu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:50:58 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f118.google.com ([209.85.221.118]:46629 "EHLO mail-qy0-f118.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751835AbZDICu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:50:58 -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=d4qlsoPhyb6Vceql3tzxiuLoY2nVQ35rrarCz+inoepLPAtYwmsb9I0evmrNxIRiSw 91QiV6g34imWmgfsHtdAbdpiUwZ7xyb8kgZwSKgYk7oZjiAkCG7Wbo4Gq6VrYLTXVczU asXjYPmlOCtZ3NpkJicTEfN5FQIpVJBmYZdtk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e8340490904081938r12f20741kec6c4c7068bd4c45@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e8340490904081938r12f20741kec6c4c7068bd4c45@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:50:56 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: BUG kmalloc-2048: Invalid object pointer 0xf656ad80 From: Justin Mattock To: Bryan Donlan 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: 962 Lines: 29 On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Bryan Donlan wrote: > 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... > yup, remove wl, in exchange for ndiswrapper. and poof this showed up.. regards, -- Justin P. Mattock -- 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/