[Madwifi-devel] Crash with latest CVS and newer kernels

[Kjartan M. <km...@br...>]

After updating from CVS I got this crash:

ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.12.1
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.1 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ath%d: HAL ABI msmatch; driver expects 0x4050400, HAL reports 0x0
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000000
 printing eip:
00000000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
Modules linked in: ath_pci(U) wlan(U) ath_hal(U) parport_pc lp parport
irtty_sir sir_dev irda crc_ccitt autofs4 ds ipt_REJECT ipt_state
ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables microcode dm_mod button battery
asus_acpi ac md5 ipv6 ohci1394 ieee1394 yenta_socket pcmcia_core
uhci_hcd ehci_hcd snd_intel8x0m snd_usb_audio snd_usb_lib snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer
snd_page_alloc gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd
soundcore tg3 ext3 jbd
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<00000000>]    Tainted: P   VLI
EFLAGS: 00210206   (2.6.8-1.579)
EIP is at 0x0
eax: 0ea50000   ebx: 09c76278   ecx: 22b08025   edx: 10994e78
esi: 10994ea4   edi: 09c76000   ebp: 09c7642c   esp: 10994e78
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 4664, threadinfo=10994000 task=105246f0)
Stack: 22b65050 0ea50000 22b0193c 21f11ec0 003b0000 00000006 0ea50000
09c76000
       00000013 09c76278 10000001 1d244b3c 00000000 0000000a 22b07fc5
00000000
       00000000 09c76000 0353fc00 09c76000 0353fc00 09c76000 22ba0000
22b07802
Call Trace:
 [<22b65050>] ath_hal_detach+0x4/0x1f [ath_hal]
 [<22b0193c>] ath_attach+0x93c/0x94f [ath_pci]
 [<22b07802>] ath_pci_probe+0x212/0x2af [ath_pci]
 [<021a9c00>] sysfs_create+0x77/0x9c
 [<021e32e8>] pci_device_probe_static+0x2a/0x3d
 [<021e3316>] __pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x2c
 [<021e3342>] pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x2d
 [<0223e84b>] bus_match+0x27/0x45
 [<0223e905>] driver_attach+0x37/0x66
 [<0223ecba>] bus_add_driver+0x77/0x97
 [<0223f0d8>] driver_register+0x51/0x58
 [<021e34ef>] pci_register_driver+0x85/0xa1
 [<22a33020>] init_ath_pci+0x20/0x4a [ath_pci]
 [<0213b7b4>] sys_init_module+0x207/0x2ef
Code: <3>Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
include/linux/rwsem.h:43
in_atomic():0[expected: 0], irqs_disabled():1
 [<0211c8b5>] __might_sleep+0x7d/0x88
 [<0215d42e>] rw_vm+0x216/0x482
 [<0215db80>] get_user_size+0x30/0x57
 [<0210683f>] show_registers+0x109/0x15e
 [<02106a43>] die+0x14a/0x241
 [<0211937e>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x50d
 [<0211937e>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x50d
 [<0211972f>] do_page_fault+0x3b1/0x50d
 [<0211cf64>] autoremove_wake_function+0xd/0x2d
 [<0211b957>] __wake_up_common+0x36/0x51
 [<0211b9ff>] __wake_up+0x8d/0xf2
 [<0211937e>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x50d
 [<22b65050>] ath_hal_detach+0x4/0x1f [ath_hal]
 [<22b0193c>] ath_attach+0x93c/0x94f [ath_pci]
 [<22b07802>] ath_pci_probe+0x212/0x2af [ath_pci]
 [<021a9c00>] sysfs_create+0x77/0x9c
 [<021e32e8>] pci_device_probe_static+0x2a/0x3d
 [<021e3316>] __pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x2c
 [<021e3342>] pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x2d
 [<0223e84b>] bus_match+0x27/0x45
 [<0223e905>] driver_attach+0x37/0x66
 [<0223ecba>] bus_add_driver+0x77/0x97
 [<0223f0d8>] driver_register+0x51/0x58
 [<021e34ef>] pci_register_driver+0x85/0xa1
 [<22a33020>] init_ath_pci+0x20/0x4a [ath_pci]
 [<0213b7b4>] sys_init_module+0x207/0x2ef
 Bad EIP value.

Has anyone else seen this?

Cheers
Kjartan Maraas