Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2008 23:53:48 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of May 16th 2008 |
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:04:26PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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.
Unsurprising really given we just did a release, and not many other distros are enabling kerneloops by default yet.
> My first guess would be that it might be a problem in some code that is > only in Fedora kernels?
Very likely, though it's worth noting that all the wireless patches we have in f9 are from wireless.git, so they're valid 2.6.26-rc bugs
Dave
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