kernel oops with madwif

[Gijs Hillenius]

Hello Debian maintainers,


I am not sure you want these messages, but just in case you do:

I am using wmwifi 0.5-1 in a Debian linux 2.6.15-1-686 with most of
Testing (& a little from Unstable).

I use ath_pci to configure an access point. This ran for two days, and
just now failed to communicate with an Ibook (airport). Maybe I
handled it wrong, but I thought rmmod ath_pci and reinserting would
maybe help:

but then I got ..

 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000005
 kernel:  printing eip:
 kernel: c0170cb8
 kernel: *pde = 00000000
 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
 kernel: Modules linked in: lp wlan_wep wlan_scan_ap ath_pci ath_rate_sample wlan ath_hal w83781d hwmon_vid i2c_dev ipt_state ipt_limit ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG iptable_nat ip_nat ip_conntrack nfnetlink iptable_filter ip_tables ipv6 ext2 reiserfs dm_mod CnxADSL br2684 via686a i2c_isa shpchp i2c_viapro via_agp pci_hotplug agpgart i2c_core snd_ens1371 gameport snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc snd_ac97_bus uhci_hcd 8139cp 8139too mii usbcore rtc floppy psmouse serio_raw parport_pc parport pcspkr ide_cd cdrom joydev ext3 jbd mbcache ide_disk generic via82cxxx ide_core evdev mousedev
 kernel: CPU:    0
 kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c0170cb8>]    Tainted: P      VLI
 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.15-1-686)
 kernel: EIP is at remove_proc_entry+0x33/0x103
 kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: e6f6d260   ecx: ffffffff   edx: 00000005
 kernel: esi: c928c260   edi: 00000005   ebp: e6f6d260   esp: e3877e58
 kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
 kernel: Process rmmod (pid: 29130, threadinfo=e3876000 task=dbdaa070)
 kernel: Stack: 00000005 e6f6d260 c928c260 e6f6d000 f0db5332 00000005 d6499b40 f0dbb122
 kernel:        df4d4900 e6f6d260 f0d9ea8c e6f6d260 e6f6d2c0 00000001 c928c260 c928c000
 kernel:        f0b0541d e6f6d260 c928c000 cdf48000 c928c260 cdf48000 c928c000 e3876000
 kernel: Call Trace:
 kernel:  [<f0db5332>] ieee80211_sysctl_vdetach+0x49/0xb5 [wlan]
 kernel:  [<f0d9ea8c>] ieee80211_vap_detach+0x76/0xbd [wlan]
 kernel:  [<f0b0541d>] ath_vap_delete+0x10e/0x233 [ath_pci]
 kernel:  [<f0d9e5e2>] ieee80211_ifdetach+0x13/0x66 [wlan]
 kernel:  [<f0b04e4a>] ath_detach+0x69/0xd4 [ath_pci]
 kernel:  [<f0b0f952>] ath_pci_remove+0x0/0x6a [ath_pci]
 kernel:  [<f0b0f964>] ath_pci_remove+0x12/0x6a [ath_pci]
 kernel:  [<c01ac702>] pci_device_remove+0x19/0x2c
 kernel:  [<c01fd099>] __device_release_driver+0x47/0x62
 kernel:  [<c01fd110>] driver_detach+0x36/0x4c
 kernel:  [<c01fcc5b>] bus_remove_driver+0x39/0x5c
 kernel:  [<c01fd36c>] driver_unregister+0xb/0x15
 kernel:  [<c01ac8c7>] pci_unregister_driver+0xe/0x19
 kernel:  [<f0b0fb43>] exit_ath_pci+0xf/0x23 [ath_pci]
 kernel:  [<c0128719>] sys_delete_module+0x121/0x152
 kernel:  [<c013e969>] do_munmap+0xd7/0xec
 kernel:  [<c013e9b7>] sys_munmap+0x39/0x54
 kernel:  [<c0102a1b>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
 kernel: Code: 83 7c 24 18 00 89 14 24 75 19 89 e0 50 8d 44 24 1c 50 52 e8 df f9 ff ff 83 c4 0c 85 c0 0f 85 d1 00 00 00 8b 3c 24 31 c0 83 c9 ff <f2> ae f7 d1 49 8b 5c 24 18 89 ce 83 c3 34 e9 ac 00 00 00 50 ff

And then I had to reboot .




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