iw crashed with SIGSEGV in nla_len()

[Neil Wilson]

Binary package hint: iw

Running iw with linux-backports-modules-karmic installed.

Also getting:

1249436466.884368: wlan0 (phy #0): unknown event 46
1249436474.988698: wlan0 (phy #0): deauth 00:17:c4:75:56:0c -> 00:1c:df:a1:c7:2c reason 4: Disassociated due to inactivity
1249436474.988911: wlan0 (phy #0): unknown event 48
1249436475.089369: wlan0 (phy #0): unknown event 33
1249436478.806469: wlan0 (phy #0): scan finished
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 5 02:41:20 2009
Dependencies:
 findutils 4.4.2-1
 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-1ubuntu1
 libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu2
 libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1ubuntu1
 libnl1 1.1-5
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/iw
Package: iw 0.9.14-1
ProcCmdline: iw event -t
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f1d199face0 <nla_len>: movzwl (%rdi),%eax
 PC (0x7f1d199face0) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: iw
StacktraceTop:
 nla_len () from /usr/lib/libnl.so.1
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 nl_recvmsgs () from /usr/lib/libnl.so.1
 ?? ()
Title: iw crashed with SIGSEGV in nla_len()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:nla_len (nla=0x0) at attr.c:161
print_frame (args=0x7fffce917860, attr=0x0)
print_event (msg=<value optimized out>,
nl_recvmsgs (handle=0x15bd3c0, cb=0x15bec40)
__listen_events (state=0x7fffce9179e0, n_waits=0,

[dino99 (9d9)]

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