EIP: [<f8a62331>] ath5k_hw_reset+0x39c/0xcd0 [ath5k]

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear all,

ath5k is causing too much trouble in my toshiba laptop
that I have removed it from /etc/modprobe.conf.  At
the meantime, I also disabled NetworkManager and
NetworkManagerDispatcher, I'll have to compile madwifi
to enable wireless.

This bug has appeared in the other kernels, but since
I can live without wireless for the meantime, I have
not complained as much.  Thanks to all who have
advised me to blacklist ath5k, sorry to have taken
long to put your advice into effect.  Will try madwifi
later on to check status of wireless.  

Regards,

Antonio 

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at virtual address 00000000
printing eip: f8a62331 *pde = 38255067
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: rfcomm l2cap bluetooth autofs4
sunrpc nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_state nf_conntrack nfnetlink ipt_REJECT
iptable_filter ip_tables xt_tcpudp ip6t_REJECT
ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables cpufreq_ondemand
acpi_cpufreq dm_multipath ipv6 snd_hda_intel arc4
snd_seq_dummy ecb blkcipher snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device
rc80211_simple snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss firewire_ohci
firewire_core snd_pcm ath5k tifm_7xx1 sdhci i2c_i801
crc_itu_t mac80211 tifm_core iTCO_wdt mmc_core
snd_timer serio_raw i2c_core iTCO_vendor_support snd
r8169 cfg80211 battery soundcore ac video
snd_page_alloc output button joydev sg sr_mod cdrom
dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_mod ata_piix
ata_generic libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache
uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<f8a62331>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00210246   (2.6.23-6.fc8 #1)
EIP is at ath5k_hw_reset+0x39c/0xcd0 [ath5k]
eax: 00000000   ebx: f4896000   ecx: 00000000   edx:
00000005
esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: ee6c1b28   esp:
ee6c1ac4
ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 00d8  gs: 0033  ss: 0068
Process NetworkManager (pid: 2301, ti=ee6c1000
task=ee566d60 task.ti=ee6c1000)
Stack: c0502278 ee6c1b0c f8a5c4e0 f5399190 f4d71060
00000002 f539af4c f539af44
       00000000 00000000 00000001 f8a86801 00000003
00000001 00000002 00000000
       ee6c1b0c 00000000 00000000 00000000 f5398fe0
f4896600 f4896000 f5398fe0
Call Trace:
 [<c0406463>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
 [<c0406513>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9b/0xa3
 [<c04066d3>] show_registers+0x1b8/0x289
 [<c04068af>] die+0x10b/0x23e
 [<c063638c>] do_page_fault+0x51c/0x5ed
 [<c0634ab2>] error_code+0x72/0x78
 [<f8a5ca82>] ath_init+0x74/0xfb [ath5k]
 [<f8a5cb9f>] ath_open+0xb/0xd [ath5k]
 [<f8a735d8>] ieee80211_open+0x259/0x320 [mac80211]
 [<c05cfdca>] dev_open+0x31/0x6c
 [<c05cdf21>] dev_change_flags+0xa3/0x156
 [<c05d5afc>] do_setlink+0x1c1/0x28d
 [<c05d6cf0>] rtnl_setlink+0xc9/0xe5
 [<c05d6570>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x1a1/0x1bb
 [<c05e3cf1>] netlink_run_queue+0x6f/0xe1
 [<c05d6385>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x29/0x42
 [<c05e4175>] netlink_data_ready+0x15/0x56
 [<c05e30cc>] netlink_sendskb+0x1f/0x37
 [<c05e39ba>] netlink_unicast+0x1ab/0x1c5
 [<c05e4154>] netlink_sendmsg+0x271/0x27d
 [<c05c47be>] sock_sendmsg+0xe7/0x104
 [<c05c492c>] sys_sendmsg+0x151/0x1af
 [<c05c59b9>] sys_socketcall+0x220/0x241
 [<c040522e>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 =======================
Code: 00 00 03 5a 08 89 fa c7 44 24 04 00 00 00 00 0f
b6 46 1c 89 04 24 8b 45 ac e8 50 cf ff ff 89 da 0f b7
c0 e8 a9 1a aa c7 ff 45 e8 <0f> b7 07 83 c6 14 39 45
e8 72 b0 8b 4d ac 83 79 48 01 76 51 66
EIP: [<f8a62331>] ath5k_hw_reset+0x39c/0xcd0 [ath5k]
SS:ESP 0068:ee6c1ac4
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0


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