This is what killed my system while I was away from the serial console. I had around 135 virtual stations running, and they were idle so being periodically disconnected from the AP for idle-ness. This is mostly FYI. I'll re-build with debugging and do some more testing to try to track these down. IP: [<f8c597ae>] ath_update_survey_stats+0x67/0x125 [ath9k] *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: bridge xt_CT iptable_raw veth ip_gre gre 8021q garp stp llc fuse macvlan pktgen corete] Pid: 22389, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G W 3.1.0-wl+ #8 To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled B. EIP: 0060:[<f8c597ae>] EFLAGS: 00210803 CPU: 0 EIP is at ath_update_survey_stats+0x67/0x125 [ath9k] EAX: c2915c1c EBX: f4ab4000 ECX: 7a324810 EDX: 00000000 ESI: 8586b5b0 EDI: 00009c40 EBP: f0523b84 ESP: f0523b70 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process wpa_supplicant (pid: 22389, ti=f0522000 task=ee071ec0 task.ti=f0522000) Stack: c2915c1c f4ab9260 f4ab9260 f4ab83a0 00000000 f0523ba4 f8c598a0 00200282 f0523bd4 f4ab40a8 f8c5986c f4ab83a0 f8b7e9cc f0523bb4 f8b635e2 f1706600 f0523bd4 f0523c1c f89682ac f0523bd4 f2975a80 ef07e001 f8b7e9cc 00000000 Call Trace: [<f8c598a0>] ath9k_get_survey+0x34/0x9f [ath9k] [<f8c5986c>] ? ath_update_survey_stats+0x125/0x125 [ath9k] [<f8b635e2>] ieee80211_dump_survey+0x40/0x44 [mac80211] [<f89682ac>] nl80211_dump_survey+0x73/0xe2 [cfg80211] [<c06efd5e>] ? __alloc_skb+0x53/0xf1 [<c06ebafa>] ? sock_rmalloc+0x29/0x6c [<c070dbb1>] netlink_dump+0x56/0x176 [<c070e468>] netlink_dump_start+0xc2/0xe4 [<c070fb78>] genl_rcv_msg+0x104/0x203 [<f8968239>] ? nl80211_send_survey.clone.4+0x1f3/0x1f3 [cfg80211] [<c0791029>] ? __mutex_lock_common+0x246/0x250 [<c070fa74>] ? genl_rcv+0x22/0x22 [<c070ecb4>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x30/0x76 [<c070fa6d>] genl_rcv+0x1b/0x22 [<c070eaf0>] netlink_unicast+0xc1/0x11c [<c070f185>] netlink_sendmsg+0x20c/0x224 [<c06e852a>] __sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x3e/0x46 [<c06e88cc>] __sock_sendmsg+0x2a/0x33 [<c06e8dda>] sock_sendmsg+0x93/0xa7 [<c04859ac>] ? __generic_file_aio_write+0x24c/0x27d [<c058b5dd>] ? _copy_from_user+0x31/0x118 [<c06f0acc>] ? copy_from_user+0x8/0xa [<c06f0dc6>] ? verify_iovec+0x3e/0x78 [<c06e97d8>] __sys_sendmsg+0x18d/0x20b [<c0513d92>] ? ext4_file_write+0x1cd/0x21b [<c044a9c9>] ? hrtimer_forward+0x10f/0x123 [<c044e880>] ? timekeeping_get_ns+0x10/0x48 [<c04b9c6b>] ? do_sync_write+0x8a/0xc5 [<c04df4ae>] ? fsnotify+0x1ad/0x1c7 [<c06e9955>] sys_sendmsg+0x2b/0x43 [<c06ea7af>] sys_socketcall+0x161/0x1b6 [<c07962d8>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.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