Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:61051 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754292Ab2AFOfE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:35:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:05:03 +0530 Message-ID: (sfid-20120106_153509_012079_929B99FA) Subject: Re: ath9k crash 3.2-rc7 From: Mohammed Shafi To: MR Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2012/1/6 MR : > ?>:( ?i had put those warnings to prevent the crash itself and what's causing > ?>it. > ?> may be i had missed that pos can be < 0 in addition to (pos > 37). > ?> i am just looking at those areas of code for some other issue. hope i > ?> can a find a fix > ?> for both of them > > I am building kernel with pos<0 check added... thanks! if it does not works, i have only one more idea(a patch which removes some suspicious code which abuses a pointer any way that has to be fixed properly ). otherwise i need to recreate the issue and capture the stack trace completely, put debug prints. i ran an overnight test but was unable to recreate the issue. later today AN i got a crash accidentally but only once, after that never. > > I hoped for some ad-hoc stress-test recommendation, but I guess this will have > to wait. > > -- shafi