rt73 throws wobbler

[txt3rob]

i got this during an ARP replay attack against my bthomehub
using rt73 3.0.1 drivers

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: skb_over_panic: text:f1415e6f len:3936 put:3792 head:e1e8a000 data:e1e8a010 tail:e1e8af70 end:e1e8a980 dev:rausb0

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: SMP 

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: CPU:    1

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c065a424>]    Tainted: P       VLI

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: EFLAGS: 00010296   (2.6.21.5 #4)

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: EIP is at skb_over_panic+0x54/0x60

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: eax: 00000075   ebx: e2398780   ecx: 00000082   edx: 00000000

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: esi: e2398780   edi: e1e8a0a0   ebp: e1e8a010   esp: edfd3ef4

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 00d8  gs: 0000  ss: 0068

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: Process rausb0-Mlme (pid: 2629, ti=edfd2000 task=ed999570 task.ti=edfd2000)

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: Stack: c0821ba0 f1415e6f 00000f60 00000ed0 e1e8a000 e1e8a010 e1e8af70 e1e8a980 

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:        ef787000 00000ed0 f1415e78 000000d0 eefcf640 c16e0530 3d127d2b 000001ae 

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:        00000011 0000000a 3d1fbf2f c0090000 c0090018 ed99967c c160e4a0 00000001 

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<f1415e6f>] RTUSBRxPacket+0xedf/0x1030 [rt73]

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<f1415e78>] RTUSBRxPacket+0xee8/0x1030 [rt73]

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<c01163df>] __wake_up_locked+0x1f/0x30

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<c06dc650>] __down_interruptible+0xf0/0x120

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<c0118d70>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<f1415fff>] RTUSBDequeueRxPackets+0x3f/0x80 [rt73]

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<f1402847>] MlmeThread+0x87/0xc0 [rt73]

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<f14027c0>] MlmeThread+0x0/0xc0 [rt73]

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  [<c0103c57>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel:  =======================

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: Code: 00 00 89 44 24 14 8b 83 9c 00 00 00 89 44 24 10 89 54 24 0c 8b 43 60 89 44 24 08 89 4c 24 04 c7 04 24 a0 1b 82 c0 e8 1c 42 ac ff <0f> 0b eb fe b8 42 79 7b c0 eb ae 90 55 57 56 53 83 ec 34 89 44 

Message from syslogd@(none) at Tue Sep  9 09:23:27 2008 ...
(none) kernel: EIP: [<c065a424>] skb_over_panic+0x54/0x60 SS:ESP 0068:edfd3ef4

any ideas on how to prevent this?

[secure_it]

Don't try to put the adapter in both managed and monitor mode same time.also don't detach the NIC physically while its scanning or connected with ap.for removing use ifconfig rausb0 down first and then only detach it.