On Thursday 23 July 2009 04:05:17 Larry Finger wrote:
> Francesco Gringoli wrote:
> > Larry, I think this could be one of the causes of the malfunctioning you
> > reported before. If you have some time (and indeed if you feel like
> > doing it :-) ) please test this firmware, it will be great.
> 
> Francesco,
> 
> The system ran about 30 minutes, then crashed. I missed the first
> oops, but caught a kernel panic with formal traceback on my i386 system:
> 
> b43_dma_handle_txstatus + 0x1ee/0x2fa
> b43_handle_txstatus + 0x45/0x52
> 
> The call in b43_dma_handle_status is at line 1405:
> 
> unmap_descbuffer(ring, meta->dmaaddr, meta->skb->len,
>                  1);
> 
> The oops was in drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.h:171 in the call to
> b43_is_old_txhdr_format(). It appears that dev->fw.rev causes the oops.

How is that possible? Is the firmware clobbering random memory?


-- 
Greetings, Michael.
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