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A late firmware response then reaches the normal\nresponse handler, which can copy data through cmd_node->data_buf into the\nstale stack address.\n\nThis fixes a stack corruption observed during repeated association and\ndisassociation cycles. The panic trace showed the command wait being\ninterrupted immediately before a bad pointer dereference:\n\n cmd_wait_q terminated: -512\n Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 002c583837384662\n Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted\n ...\n Tainted: [M]=MACHINE_CHECK\n\nThe fault address decodes as little-endian ASCII:\n\n 0x002c583837384662 -> \"bF878X,\\0\"\n\nwhich is a fragment of the VERSION_EXT firmware string exposed as\ndebugfs \"verext\":\n\n w8997o-V4, RF878X, FP92, 16.92.21.p153.7\n\nThe same runs also showed corrupted control data containing:\n\n 0x2400372e333531 -> \"153.7\\0$\"\n\nwhich is the tail of the same VERSION_EXT string. 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