Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758543AbZDIDAo (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:00:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757088AbZDIDAM (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:00:12 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f118.google.com ([209.85.221.118]:36341 "EHLO mail-qy0-f118.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757277AbZDIDAK (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:00:10 -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=ZHy71MQRXYxis7mR37ZXnhVgZMzDMRAtPQ69iVg95zL+ET4pv1uWaNgQa4q6MvJT5S kITZ5DkCtesm4Hl31VKABfxipwA+oHaqF2OYcVR+frWF+AnV7BbYkgIIY9vCWGGpTFVW cgoRQwQF6O6y7Bq2Jq6SDmIv0kps4vU6ZupgE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <3e8340490904081938r12f20741kec6c4c7068bd4c45@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:00:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3e8340490904082000h39a19ad8mc2c2fe9a9ab88685@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: 1137 Lines: 28 On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Justin Mattock wrote: > 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.. The bug came up in the wl module's removal code - I'd suggest just not loading it in the first place. -- 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/