Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:03:52 +0000 | From | Sitsofe Wheeler <> | Subject | Re: [TIP] BUG kmalloc-4096: Poison overwritten (ath5k_rx_skb_alloc) |
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On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:12:22PM -0500, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:03:39PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > > > Note that I was able to reproduce it again : ) > > By the way, here's the theoretical race I was alluding to. ath5k_reset > happens pretty frequently when scanning, and it's possible that the rx > tasklet is run on another cpu after interrupts are turned off, but
The machine where this fault happened is a single core non-symmetric multithreading EeePC 900 with a Celeron M 900 using a voluntary preempt kernel (so I doubt this is due to tasklets being run on another CPU)...
I am a bit unsure which patches you want me to be testing though...
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