On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Justin Mattock<justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I have no idea what this is:
(first time I've seen this);
[ 13.055592] =============================================================================
[ 13.055865] BUG kmalloc-8192: Poison overwritten
[ 13.056046] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I believe this means we write to an area in memory after we freed an skb.
[ 13.056366] INFO: 0xffff88003290a100-0xffff88003290a143. First byte
0x50 instead of 0x6b
[ 13.056366] INFO: Allocated in ath_rxbuf_alloc+0x25/0x94 [ath]
age=8898 cpu=0 pid=892
[ 13.056366] INFO: Freed in skb_release_data+0xc1/0xc6 age=99 cpu=0 pid=0
[ 13.056366] INFO: Slab 0xffffea0000b0f9c0 objects=3 used=0
fp=0xffff88003290c090 flags=0x4000000000004082
[ 13.056366] INFO: Object 0xffff88003290a048 @offset=8264
fp=0xffff880032908000
[ 13.056366]
[ 13.056366] Bytes b4 0xffff88003290a038: b9 9e fb ff 00 00 00 00
5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a Â.ÃÃ....ZZZZZZZZ
Can you reproduce this? We had a similar report from Miles Lanes I
have been trying to followup on for a while now. The suggested patches
to try are:
http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/patches/ath9k/2009/11-19/70-mac80211-total-ampdu-tx-info.patch
http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/patches/ath9k/2009/11-19/71-ath9k-remove-tx_info_priv.patch
Luis