feisty kernel ath_pci module: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When booting the 2.6.20-3-generic kernel I get the following BUG:
[ 10.836000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[ 10.836000] printing eip:
[ 10.836000] f8ad1008
[ 10.836000] *pde = 00000000
[ 10.836000] Oops: 0002 [#1]
[ 10.836000] SMP
[ 10.836000] Modules linked in: ath_pci ath_rate_sample serio_raw soundcore snd_page_alloc pcspkr yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support wlan ath_hal(P) shpchp pci_hotplug evdev tsdev ext3 jbd mbcache sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod generic ahci ata_generic usbhid hid ata_piix libata scsi_mod tg3 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore dm_mod raid10 raid456 xor raid1 raid0 multipath linear md_mod thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor vesafb capability commoncap
[ 10.836000] CPU: 0
[ 10.836000] EIP: 0060:[pg0+
[ 10.836000] EFLAGS: 00010292 (2.6.20-3-generic #2)
[ 10.836000] EIP is at ath_attach+
[ 10.836000] eax: 00000000 ebx: 00001014 ecx: 00000000 edx: f7cbfdcf
[ 10.836000] esi: c1916c00 edi: dfd72400 ebp: dfd72400 esp: f7cbfd40
[ 10.836000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
[ 10.836000] Process modprobe (pid: 3246, ti=f7cbe000 task=dff5e030 task.ti=f7cbe000)
[ 10.836000] Stack: f8ae0000 f7cbfdc8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 10.836000] dfd72000 10140000 dfd73a38 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 10.836000] 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000017 f7d2e980 c03bc180
[ 10.836000] Call Trace:
[ 10.836000] [setup_irq+225/464] setup_irq+
[ 10.836000] [pg0+946208992/
[ 10.836000] [pg0+946198944/
[ 10.836000] [pg0+946209459/
[ 10.836000] [sysfs_
[ 10.836000] [pg0+946208992/
[ 10.836000] [pci_device_
[ 10.836000] [really_
[ 10.836000] [driver_
[ 10.836000] [__driver_
[ 10.836000] [bus_for_
[ 10.836000] [driver_
[ 10.836000] [__driver_
[ 10.836000] [bus_add_
[ 10.836000] [__pci_
[ 10.836000] [pg0+944988208/
[ 10.836000] [sys_init_
[ 10.836000] [sys_mmap2+205/208] sys_mmap2+0xcd/0xd0
[ 10.836000] [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_
[ 10.836000] =======
[ 10.836000] Code: 89 40 04 c7 85 a4 17 00 00 d0 56 ad f8 8b 54 24 20 8d 84 24 88 00 00 00 89 44 24 04 8b 42 1c
89 ea 89 04 24 89 d8 e8 68 72 f9 ff <01> 00 00 00 24 2c 0f 84 98 05 00 00 8b 5c 24 2c 8b 43 04 3d 00
[ 10.836000] EIP: [pg0+946188296/
[ 10.836000] <3>intel_rng: FWH not detected
[ 10.924000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[ 10.924000] agpgart: Detected an Intel 915GM Chipset.
Boot continues afterwards, but WLAN does not work (no wonder: ath_pci is the module for that;-).
My hardware is described here:
https:/
Best Regards,
Tobias
Problem persists on 2.6.20-4-generic.