On Tuesday 20 June 2006 04:13, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 01:29 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 01:06, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > > I took out 1G of RAM (2 1G sticks), and there was no more panic.  It
> > > still didn't work (no output from iwlist scan), but also no panic.
> > 
> > Oh, well. That is going to get very difficult to debug remotely...
> > I wonder what is actually causing the NULL pointer dereference.
> > I don't think it is an invalid cookie, as that would have triggered
> > assertion failures before the oops.
> > Would have triggered one
> >     assert(0);
> > and one
> >     assert(ring);
> > But they were not there (Or did you strip them?)
> > 
> 
> They were not there.  It is (in fact) hitting the assert(0) case, and
> actually dying de-referencing ring in assert(*slot >= 0 && *slot <
> ring->nr_slots);
> 
> I changed the assert() for bcm43xx to BUG(), and it BUG()s in the
> assert(0) case in parse_cookie().  I tried using printk() to get info on
> what cookie was, but it didn't actually print anything (which is why I
> think the assert didn't show up either).

Uh, weird.
I don't know why this happens.
An idea, anyone?

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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