Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 21:04:26 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 16th 2008 |
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:41:31AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >... > Bug of the week > --------------- > Not in the top 10 (but barely not so), but upcoming fast is a bug that has a very > distinct pattern. > The backtraces are at http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=fput > > The pattern is that the kernel gets an invalid pointer passed to fput(), > coming down from a select() system call done by the "wpa_supplicant" program. > The fact that it is ONLY wpa_supplicant implicates the wireless/network stack. > Another observation is that this only happens with 64 bit kernels, even though > a large portion of the users uses 32 bit kernels. This implies that this is a 64-bit > type of bug. It appears that the top 32 bit of the pointers is getting corrupted > (the bottom part at least looks valid). >...
Unless I misunderstand your webinterface another pattern is a "fc9" in the version string.
My first guess would be that it might be a problem in some code that is only in Fedora kernels?
cu Adrian
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