Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.25]:2120 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708AbZKQAln convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:41:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890911161515q64ff527cyefd7d769f3c501b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ADE2F66.1070703@gmail.com> <43e72e890911161515q64ff527cyefd7d769f3c501b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:41:47 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc5-git1 -- BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten (ath9k implicated) From: Miles Lane To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: LKML , linux-wireless , Felix Bitterli Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Miles