Hi Carlo The expection was likely fixed with a patch with the title: brcmfmac: Fix double free on exception at module load. The change you found which is causing a crash caused a double free. It won't fix the firmware crash, but it will fix the system crash on failure. Regards, Hante -----Original Message----- From: carlo.caione@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:carlo.caione@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carlo Caione Sent: Friday, December 25, 2015 11:16 AM To: Arend van Spriel Cc: Carlo Caione; Hante Meuleman; Arend Van Spriel; kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [BISECTED] brcmfmac issue since 4.3.0-rc3 On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Arend van Spriel <aspriel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Carlo, > > This smells like a firmware crash. Upon the brcmf_bus_start failure we > bail out on the probe. I suspect in the error path there is an issue > introduced (or exposed) by the mentioned patch. Did not look further > into it as the family is giving me the angry look during the holidays ;-) Hi Arend, Thank you for the quick reply, this can definitely wait ;-) Happy holidays and happy new year! -- Carlo Caione ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���zW����ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f