On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Um, also the new "ath" module taints the kernel Christian Lamparter posted a patch for that yesterday. > [ 4.176459] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00 > [ 4.176556] ath: Regpair detected: 0x60 > [ 4.176679] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > 00000004 > [ 4.176874] IP: [<dffede2e>] freq_reg_info_regd+0x2a/0xf2 [cfg80211] > [ 4.177053] *pdpt = 0000000017451001 *pde = 0000000000000000 > [ 4.177245] Oops: 0000 [#2] > [ 4.177376] last sysfs file: /sys/class/input/input5/modalias > [ 4.177477] Modules linked in: ath5k(+) snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss > snd_mixer_oss uhci_hcd ehci_hcd mac80211 i2c_i801 led_class ath(P) > psmouse serio_raw snd_pcm i2c_core pcspkr cfg80211 atl2 intel_agp > snd_timer snd_page_alloc usbcore agpgart eeepc_laptop video backlight > output battery rfkill ac processor button evdev thermal fan ata_generic > [ 4.179388] > [ 4.179475] Pid: 1641, comm: modprobe Tainted: P D > (2.6.30-rc1-wleeepc #11) 701 > [ 4.179615] EIP: 0060:[<dffede2e>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0 > [ 4.179732] EIP is at freq_reg_info_regd+0x2a/0xf2 [cfg80211] > [ 4.179834] EAX: 00000000 EBX: df200060 ECX: 00004e20 EDX: e0099524 > [ 4.179938] ESI: 00000060 EDI: 0024cde0 EBP: de551d70 ESP: de551d50 > [ 4.180003] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 > [ 4.180003] Process modprobe (pid: 1641, ti=de550000 task=de833000 > task.ti=de550000) Hmm, null pointer is probably custom_regd since reg_rule comes from the stack and wiphy should've been validated a lot earlier. Mind posting the objdump -S net/wireless/reg.o ? -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- 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
