Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request atffffffffffffffff

[David Miller]

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:48:32 -0700 (PDT)

> But that 0xf0 definitely has shown up before. It's not the *only* 
> corruption, but it's definitely a very interesting pattern. And the other 
> ones that didn't show the 0xf0 pattern could obviously be due to pointers 
> that were corrupted by 0xf0 in low bytes, so it _may_ be the source of the 
> other corruptions too that didn't have an obvious 0xf0 directly in them.

Ok.

Do we know of any pattern of the wireless device type in use?
If there is a pattern to that, it would be a huge clue.

And if it is predominantly one particular wireless device type, we
should be able to come up with a patch to test.
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