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Re: memory clobber in rx path, maybe related to ath9k.

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On Fri October 8 2010 04:27:22 Johannes Berg wrote:
> I'm still convinced something is wrong with ath9k RX DMA, as you've seen
> the contents of frames written to already freed memory regions. Since I
> don't know anything about ath9k, you should probably not rely on me
> though :-)

not sure if this is related or not, but it reminds me of:

"ath9k: BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten"
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127379077422354&w=2

and:

"ath5k in monitor mode: Poison overwritten on buffers allocated from 
ath_rxbuf_alloc"
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15861

bruno
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