Pulling a rt73 USB stick in operation (packets were injected into the monitor) does oops the kernel as follows: [ 630.304883] rt73usb 2-6:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin [ 630.417740] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready [ 700.489876] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready [ 743.571488] device wlan1 entered promiscuous mode [ 829.207708] usb 2-6: USB disconnect, address 4 [ 829.208272] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x3040 with error -19. [ 829.208355] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3040 with error -19. [ 829.208436] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3028 with error -19. [ 829.208516] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3064 with error -19. [ 829.208595] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0c failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19. [ 829.208687] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19. [ 829.209622] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19. [ 829.209832] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19. [ 829.210187] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19. [ 829.223337] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x3040 with error -19. [ 829.223424] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3040 with error -19. [ 829.269467] ============================================================================= [ 829.269554] BUG kmalloc-16: Redzone overwritten [ 829.269615] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ 829.269618] [ 829.269746] INFO: 0xf56c4b50-0xf56c4b53. First byte 0xb instead of 0xcc [ 829.269821] INFO: Allocated in rt2x00usb_probe+0xb5/0x1c1 [rt2x00usb] age=104615 cpu=0 pid=3965 [ 829.269902] INFO: Slab 0xc20bc880 objects=64 used=53 fp=0xf56c4b80 flags=0x40000083 [ 829.269940] INFO: Object 0xf56c4b40 @offset=2880 fp=0xf56c4b80 [ 829.269940] [ 829.269940] Bytes b4 0xf56c4b30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ........ZZZZZZZZ [ 829.269940] Object 0xf56c4b40: 00 00 00 00 0c 2c 00 00 86 07 00 00 51 a2 06 00 .....,......Q¢.. [ 829.269940] Redzone 0xf56c4b50: 0b 2a 0d 00 .*.. [ 829.269940] Padding 0xf56c4b78: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZ [ 829.269940] Pid: 810, comm: khubd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-wl #2 [ 829.269940] Call Trace: [ 829.269940] [<c10bff6b>] print_trailer+0xd3/0x108 [ 829.269940] [<c10c0066>] check_bytes_and_report+0xc6/0xe3 [ 829.269940] [<c10c010f>] check_object+0x53/0x1ea [ 829.269940] [<c10c1d28>] __slab_free+0x1e7/0x2c8 [ 829.269940] [<c10c2120>] kfree+0xc9/0x137 [ 829.269940] [<f86fb05f>] ? rt2x00usb_free_reg+0x11/0x48 [rt2x00usb] [ 829.269940] [<f86fb05f>] ? rt2x00usb_free_reg+0x11/0x48 [rt2x00usb] [ 829.269940] [<f86fb05f>] rt2x00usb_free_reg+0x11/0x48 [rt2x00usb] [ 829.269940] [<f86fb0b5>] rt2x00usb_disconnect+0x1f/0x40 [rt2x00usb] [ 829.269940] [<f8063357>] usb_unbind_interface+0xdf/0x116 [usbcore] [ 829.269940] [<c11f7247>] __device_release_driver+0x53/0x96 [ 829.269940] [<c11f732a>] device_release_driver+0x18/0x23 [ 829.269940] [<c11f6992>] bus_remove_device+0x70/0x94 [ 829.269940] [<c11f4fff>] device_del+0x103/0x186 [ 829.269940] [<f8060462>] usb_disable_device+0x79/0xe4 [usbcore] [ 829.269940] [<f805b69f>] usb_disconnect+0x8a/0xee [usbcore] [ 829.269940] [<f805c804>] hub_thread+0x691/0x125d [usbcore] [ 829.269940] [<c1020100>] ? chk_conflict+0x13e/0x16c [ 829.269940] [<c12dbdab>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x39/0x68 [ 829.269940] [<c1057cdb>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x102/0x146 [ 829.269940] [<c1047699>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a [ 829.269940] [<f805c173>] ? hub_thread+0x0/0x125d [usbcore] [ 829.269940] [<c104738c>] kthread+0x6f/0x75 [ 829.269940] [<c104731d>] ? kthread+0x0/0x75 [ 829.269940] [<c1003977>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1a [ 829.269940] FIX kmalloc-16: Restoring 0xf56c4b50-0xf56c4b53=0xcc -- Greetings, Michael. -- 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