On 7/3/2010 9:56 AM, [email protected] wrote: > So, i was able to get an strace by running powertop inside a screen > session on a remote machine. I've attached the log but the crash > seems to be triggered by iwpriv -a; i can verify that, by manually > running that command as root, which gives me the same kernel panic. > here's the output: > > lo no private ioctls. > eth0 no private ioctls. > wlan0 Available read-only private ioctl : > wlan0 firm_ver:63 > Kernel Panic [etc...] > > anyway, > (1) thanks for the help, (2) if someone on the listh appens to know > how the heck this could cause a kernel panic, i'd be very grateful to > hear your advice. Thanks much, >
I think you have 2 good courses of action 1) Ditch this driver, and switch to the driver for the same hardware that is in the linux kernel. 2) Work with Ubuntu/Canonical to have them fix this stack buffer overflow in code they ship... it'll help marking it as a security bug I suppose _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
