Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Dec 30 2010 - 21:47:22 EST


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:25:51AM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
>
> Confirmed. No crashes with the junk buffer in action.
> I applied both patches (dump_stack() in hwrng_register() and junk[]
> after priv data) to vanilla 2.6.37-rc7 and tested both: via-rng and my
> via+rng2 as well as via-rng and b43-rng - no crashes. The (previously
> also crashing) `cat rng_available' does survive as well:
>
> $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_available
> via b43_phy0 via2
> $
>
> Attached 2 dmesg excerpts.

Thanks for checking. Can you provide the output of

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Cheers,
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