[Madwifi-users] Re: [BUG] Fatal bug if ifconfig hw ether is used.

[Anssi S. <as...@sc...>]

Wang wenjuan <wwjmaomao <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 
> hi JG.
>  
> Will you show  us your ksyms?

I seem to have the same problem, below is the oops from my system. I hope it has
sufficient information? I'm not sure what replaced /proc/keysyms in 2.6 kernels.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
 printing eip:
d4dffd57
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT 
Modules linked in: dtl1_cs pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core
uhci_hcd usbcore wlan_wep ath_pci ath_rate_onoe wlan ath_hal hostap_crypt_wep
hostap ppp_deflate zlib_deflate zlib_inflate bsd_comp ppp_async crc_ccitt
ppp_generic slhc rfcomm l2cap bluetooth snd_cs4281 snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_timer
snd_hwdep snd soundcore e100 mii intel_agp agpgart ipt_REJECT ipt_limit ipt_LOG
ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables rtc ibm_acpi
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<d4dffd57>]    Tainted: P      VLI
EFLAGS: 00010296   (2.6.11-ck8-ARCH) 
EIP is at zz067cfcae+0xa7/0x218 [ath_hal]
eax: 00000000   ebx: ce580000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 0000003c
esi: 00000000   edi: ce582f0c   ebp: ce580000   esp: c5768d84
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process ifconfig (pid: 5992, threadinfo=c5768000 task=d316ca20)
Stack: 0014cd03 00000000 00000001 ce580000 00000000 ce582f0c ce580000 d4e00018 
       ce580000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ce580000 d4e0bfe7 ce580000 00000000 
       d3d2e680 c0178a34 00000008 c5768e64 00000020 00000000 c013f862 42995893 
Call Trace:
 [<d4e00018>] zz03e97353+0x50/0x1e4 [ath_hal]
 [<d4e0bfe7>] zz06e14dd1+0x323/0xbb4 [ath_hal]
 [<c0178a34>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x104/0x1f0
 [<c013f862>] blockable_page_cache_readahead+0x22/0x60
 [<c0120f03>] current_fs_time+0x53/0x60
 [<c0170acf>] update_atime+0x5f/0xb0
 [<d4e0bd46>] zz06e14dd1+0x82/0xbb4 [ath_hal]
 [<d4e0007b>] zz03e97353+0xb3/0x1e4 [ath_hal]
 [<c010fb76>] delay_pmtmr+0x16/0x20
 [<d4e0bcc0>] zz0b709d02+0x30/0x34 [ath_hal]
 [<d4da34c8>] ath_reset+0x78/0x210 [ath_pci]
 [<d4e0986c>] zz02dbfdfd+0x18/0x24 [ath_hal]
 [<d4da8566>] ath_set_mac_address+0x86/0x130 [ath_pci]
 [<c014823c>] handle_mm_fault+0x18c/0x1e0
 [<d4da84e0>] ath_set_mac_address+0x0/0x130 [ath_pci]
 [<c025d238>] dev_ifsioc+0x238/0x460
 [<c025b830>] dev_load+0x20/0x70
 [<c025d720>] dev_ioctl+0x2c0/0x2e0
 [<c0295f60>] udp_ioctl+0x0/0xc0
 [<c029d826>] inet_ioctl+0x46/0x100
 [<c0252f02>] sock_ioctl+0x172/0x210
 [<c0252d90>] sock_ioctl+0x0/0x210
 [<c016880b>] do_ioctl+0x8b/0xa0
 [<c0168a0e>] vfs_ioctl+0x5e/0x1d0
 [<c0168bbd>] sys_ioctl+0x3d/0x70
 [<c0102f89>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75
Code: fd 29 c5 89 e8 85 c0 7e 04 8d 71 18 4a d1 fa 75 c3 ba 00 00 00 00 89 d0 5b
5e 5f 5d c3 8d 76 00 55 57 56 53 83 ec 0c 8b 44 24 24 <66> 8b 00 66 89 44 24 0a
8b 54 24 20 66 83 ba d6 01 00 00 00 0f