Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755826AbZKSXTQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753532AbZKSXTP (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:15 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]:40424 "EHLO mail-iw0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751593AbZKSXTO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:14 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kEQXR87uz4R44i76Wn0HttW8rYSTpqoRbUcx7N/j4seMU85lrPHAybDRYo+dWS/qUA v147cf9zptd0jhUNavaVg0sHfTKfubJSHfmj1dz5nV/NcpJiNggRq86IZ8S8vc5bfAp4 dOB+P5dTwUIRtXYyYxQm4bZI3cIK0PDHJyRec= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890911161708o607da2a5hefe98e92fd13ee7a@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ADE2F66.1070703@gmail.com> <43e72e890911161515q64ff527cyefd7d769f3c501b@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890911161708o607da2a5hefe98e92fd13ee7a@mail.gmail.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:19:00 -0800 Message-ID: <43e72e890911191519h73bd6699if860257c049ba1a0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc5-git1 -- BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten (ath9k implicated) To: Miles Lane Cc: LKML , linux-wireless , Felix Fietkau Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2329 Lines: 55 On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Miles Lane wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Miles Lane wrote: >>>> Let me know if you want my .config file.  I think this was triggered by >>>> suspending my laptop. >>>> >>>> BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten >>> >>> Thanks for your report Miles. >>> >>> Are you using Linus' tree? Felix wrote some patches that got rid of >>> the rate control private area which we kmalloc/kfree and at least one >>> user reported that these patches fixed a memory leak. I'm curious if >>> the same patches would resolve this issue. >>> >>> Only thing is these patches apply against wireless-testing and not >>> 2.6.32. To test them you'd have to pull wireless-testing master to >>> your tree and then apply the patches both before and after. >>> >>> Would you be up to try that? >> >> Yes, definitely.  Thanks.  I will try to accomplish this and let you >> know if I get stuck. > > OK, not sure if a merge of wireless-testing will be clean so you may > want to just clone fresh.. Anyway after you get wireless-testing bits > you'll want to apply these: > > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/60127/ > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/60128/ > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/60126/ > > If you want to merge wireless-testing you can try: > > git merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git > master > > If that'd doesn't gos smooth just clone it and I think you should be > able to safely --reference your current tree for objects for Linus' > tree. Miles I see no reply from you yet so I backported the patches in question for you. Can you please try 2.6.32-rc7 and apply these patches on top: http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/patches/ath9k/2009/11-19/70-mac80211-total-ampdu-tx-info.patch http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/patches/ath9k/2009/11-19/71-ath9k-remove-tx_info_priv.patch Luis -- 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/