Bug 578976 – net-wireless/broadcom-sta null pointer dereference

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Dave Kennedy 2016-04-04 04:54:21 UTC]

I'm able to build the package, but when I try to load the module with `modprobe wl` the kernel crashes. Similar to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265385.

Here's the error: http://ix.io/vwk

Here's the rest of dmesg: http://ix.io/vwl

Here's `emerge --info`: http://ix.io/vwm

Finally, here's the kernel config: http://ix.io/vwn

[Comment 1 Adam Feldman 2016-04-04 05:48:18 UTC]

(In reply to Dave Kennedy from comment #0)
> I'm able to build the package, but when I try to load the module with
> `modprobe wl` the kernel crashes. Similar to
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265385.
> 
> Here's the error: http://ix.io/vwk
> 
> Here's the rest of dmesg: http://ix.io/vwl
> 
> Here's `emerge --info`: http://ix.io/vwm
> 
> Finally, here's the kernel config: http://ix.io/vwn

Please attach your information to the bug.  This ensures that the information is available if anyone ever needs to look at the bug.

[Comment 2 Dave Kennedy 2016-04-05 00:50:58 UTC]

Created attachment 429656 [details]
null pointer dereference error

[Comment 3 Dave Kennedy 2016-04-05 00:51:35 UTC]

Created attachment 429658 [details]
dmesg

[Comment 4 Dave Kennedy 2016-04-05 00:52:02 UTC]

Created attachment 429660 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 5 Dave Kennedy 2016-04-05 00:52:23 UTC]

Created attachment 429662 [details]
kernel .config

[Comment 6 Dave Kennedy 2016-04-21 02:55:24 UTC]

After remerging this package I'm able to `modprobe wl` without errors. I've tried a number of things since reporting this bug so it's hard to say which might have fixed it. I compared my current kernel config to the attached here and they are the same, so no leads there.