From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:46:13 -1000 > Hmm. Maybe this is old, but I don't think I've seen it before (who > knows, maybe it has killed the machine before, I had a hard hang the > other day). > > It's a NULL pointer dereference in nl80211_set_reg() on my Pixel. The > machine kind of stayed up afterwards, although with no working > wireless, and it would not shut down cleanly presumably due to locks > held etc. > > Any ideas? I'm including the few wireless-related messages that > happened justr before the oops. Being a pixel, this is with the ath9k > driver. nl80211_set_reg() is really careful about validating which netlink attributes the user has specified, and either not dereferencing or signalling an error when NULL is seen. Hmmm... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
