Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008

Johannes Berg wrote:

quoted

Rank 1: __ieee80211_rx
	Warning at net/mac80211/rx.c:1672
	Reported 6 times (11 total reports)
	Same issue that was ranked 2nd last week
	Johannes has diagnosed this as a driver bug in the iwlwifi drivers
	More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=__ieee80211_rx

Note that because we don't get the module list for WARN_ON, we don't
actually know whether all of these instances are from the iwlwifi
drivers. A few other drivers suffer from the same problem. In one of
these cases, iwlwifi was contained in the stack trace, but in the common
case that isn't happening because packet processing is delayed to a
tasklet.

and fwiw a patch to get this added to WARN_ON was posted by my last week to fix this;
once this goes into 2.6.25-rc this annoyance/hinderance in debugging will be fixed.