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[Seth Arnold <1365672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

** Information type changed from Public Security to Public

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Title:
  A recent firmware update made ath9k_htc card cause kernel panic/freeze

Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Today there was an update to the linux-firmware package. This
  apparently changed the firmware used by  the ath9k_htc driver required
  by my wifi dongle. Now if the dongle is plugged in, my computer
  freezes and if it is plugge don before boot, the computer freezes in
  the login screen. After careful analysis of the syslogs it can be seen
  that the hard drive got remounted as readonly meaning that the kernel
  had a fatal error occur in some driver. I am currently using the linux
  3.17 vanilla kernel that is in development and teh linux-firmware
  package that comes in standard with ubuntu trusty tahr. I am sure teh
  issue lies with the firmware since the same kernel has been running
  for a few days without issues before the firmware got updated .

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