On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It is probably just a transient problem with recent activities - I had > a NULL pointer deref from loading rtl8187 of compat-wireless > v2.6.32-rc3-39563-g98c2609 - > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000003d > IP: [<ffffffff8147822c>] wext_ioctl_dispatch+0xd9/0x180 > PGD 61c2b067 PUD 6246f067 PMD 0 > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > ... > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff814783f5>] wext_handle_ioctl+0x4d/0x98 > [<ffffffff813e53a5>] dev_ioctl+0x625/0x662 > [<ffffffff813cfa45>] sock_ioctl+0x225/0x248 > [<ffffffff811237a3>] vfs_ioctl+0x31/0xaa > [<ffffffff811e1801>] ? security_d_instantiate+0x37/0x4d > [<ffffffff81123c88>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x46c/0x4c3 > [<ffffffff81123d44>] sys_ioctl+0x65/0x9c > [<ffffffff81012082>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > I'm sure whatever changes made this happen will go away soon, so I'll > just re-try in a few days... but if anybody knows what commit causes > this (and what fixes it!), I'd like to know. > Hiya, It looks like I last used compat-wireless successfully was on 25th (I am not saying it breaks after - I just haven't tried until yesterday, possibly), and most of the recent changes are per-driver, but there is a big code drop from Johannes dated 27th on 'wext: refactor' . Changes from that or dependent changes? -- 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
