Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:00:09 -0400 | Subject | Re: BUG kmalloc-2048: Invalid object pointer 0xf656ad80 | From | Bryan Donlan <> |
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote: >>> doing a: >>> sudo /sbin/rmmod wl >>> (generated a bug message) >> [snip] >>> The kernel is tainted with nvidia, and a broadcom wl. >> >> Would this broadcom wl be the very module you're trying to remove? >> What makes you think this isn't a bug in this wl binary module? From >> the looks of the backtrace it's dying due to a free of a wild pointer >> right in the middle of the wl module - it certainly doesn't look like >> it came from some other subsystem... >> > > yup, > remove wl, in exchange > for ndiswrapper. and poof > this showed up..
The bug came up in the wl module's removal code - I'd suggest just not loading it in the first place.
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