Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753605AbZLAHym (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:54:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752063AbZLAHyl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:54:41 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f171.google.com ([209.85.223.171]:33364 "EHLO mail-iw0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750841AbZLAHyk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:54:40 -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=Qmcs7ottaWHBEpbD5dYg3iITfCo8CrapNfFcOfPfr/Ptdt/x55rBOIcYlMwJj2ubEk 0iixSG6u7ttwFaQo2SLFlif/NKjBx4olHT15a0+zKuwBHiiQHjMTv+6ks3FT1oCIyuKD dwu44nT77bzwii8BjZnDOAijr+IVa+jdwXb2M= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890911231347k48f105dcw24dd99c1c39f034@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ADE2F66.1070703@gmail.com> <43e72e890911161515q64ff527cyefd7d769f3c501b@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890911161708o607da2a5hefe98e92fd13ee7a@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890911191519h73bd6699if860257c049ba1a0@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890911231347k48f105dcw24dd99c1c39f034@mail.gmail.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:54:26 -0800 Message-ID: <43e72e890911302354i1b17265ckb3aa81171a24174b@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: 2742 Lines: 62 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> 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 > > Miles, any luck testing this? Miles -- poke. The patches provided should apply on Linus' tree, please let us know if they fix the issue you reported. 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/