Bug 438202 - ath5k overwrites poison
Summary: ath5k overwrites poison
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-19 17:44 UTC by Adam Goode
Modified: 2013-01-13 12:10 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.6.25.4-38.fc9
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-06-02 19:21:11 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Exerpt of syslog with poison overwritten and lockdep problem (19.79 KB, text/plain)
2008-03-19 17:44 UTC, Adam Goode
no flags Details
BUG kmalloc-4096 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten in 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686.debug (14.44 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-06-19 06:46 UTC, Colin Lai
no flags Details

Description Adam Goode 2008-03-19 17:44:53 UTC
Description of problem:
When running NetworkManager, the kernel detects poison overwritten.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9.i686

How reproducible:
Regularly.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do some networking.
2. Change networkmanager settings.



Additional info:
There is an additional lockdep error, which may not be related.

Comment 1 Adam Goode 2008-03-19 17:44:53 UTC
Created attachment 298551 [details]
Exerpt of syslog with poison overwritten and lockdep problem

Comment 2 John W. Linville 2008-03-19 18:53:17 UTC
Setting-up rx dma pointers improperly?

Comment 3 Adam Goode 2008-03-26 22:59:34 UTC
Still happening in 2.6.25-0.155.rc6.git8.fc9.i686

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 06:44:05 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 John W. Linville 2008-05-29 20:42:55 UTC
Are you seeing this issue with current kernels?

   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=50712

Comment 6 Adam Goode 2008-06-01 17:21:45 UTC
Seems ok on the latest Fedora 9 kernel. (Not tried from Koji)

Comment 7 Colin Lai 2008-06-19 06:46:49 UTC
Created attachment 309818 [details]
BUG kmalloc-4096 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten in 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686.debug 

Card  Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband
processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)
I use monitor mode to capture air packets with tcpdump.
the packets RX stat stop increase about every 50k packets. Then dmesg will get
the kernel bug dump as attachment.
It seems that the bug is not fix yet.


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