Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:37:35 +1100 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register() |
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On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 04:49:05PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > > Do you see any problems in the code in drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c or > drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.c. As the latter seems to make b43 fail, I am > suspecting via-rng, but I have no proof.
My suspicion is that VIA's xstore is writing more than 4 bytes as the list pointer happens to lie immediately after rng->priv which is where xstore is writing to.
Harald, do you know whether this is documented or is this a known errata item?
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